Originally Posted by
1 Miyata Biker
Thanks for all the input you all provided! I'm still indecisive about the Garmin GPS units. I don't like all the negativity I'm seeing, not necessarily here but in other locations, but may wind up with a Garmin unit if nothing else seems equal or better. May just have to wait for the competition to come alive with some good GPS units. Thanks again!
Sadly there really is no competition...and hasn't been any for years. And probably won't be any either.
Magellan manages to be absolute creeps. For a long time, any rides you synced would be auto uploaded to a 3rd party website with no anonymization without your expressed knowledge or real consent...meaning anyone on that site could see where you live and work. When called out on the practice, Magellan said "read that EULA you signed"...which by agreeing you give them carte blanche to data mine you and make that data 100% public. Finally a year later they stopped it. Then there's the distance doubling bugs...the ridiculous lack of on-device storage (only 100MB for USA units...and a typical 60km ride generates 5-10MB of ride files), and it is non0expandable...and the inability to load mapsets for countries outside of the region where you bought the device. Also the screen isn't as good as the Edge 1K for example.
People give Garmin grief because they've been around long enough and all the bad tendencies are still there WRT software. Which is sad as the hardware is damn good all around.
Maybe in another few years cellphones will all be waterproof and durable enough for handlebars, and have the battery legs to do all the duty...but I ain't holding my breath.