Originally Posted by
JohnJ80
Not at all. What I'm saying is that the piling on of features gets a lot of them lost in the noise. At some point, few consumers look at them or even understand how to use them. For example, what percentage of users do you think actually use the feature of tweeting their position out on a regular basis? 2%? 5%? When that happens, it's like trying to sell a car based on the great cupholders.
A few things:
(1) I use that feature on a regular basis, literally
every time I ride with cell reception.
(2) What you're talking about is actually the reason companies make more than one product. For example you can buy a 510 that does Live Tracking, or for $100 less you can buy a 500 that doesn't. If you don't care about or understand a feature, you shouldn't pay for it. That doesn't mean other people also find something unimportant.
My girlfriend wants to know when I'm coming home, if I don't use Live Tracking she'll text or call me during my ride to ask. If I
do use it, she has a cold glass of iced tea waiting for me when I get home.
It doesn't actually tweet your position on a regular basis. The watch or computer sends your position to the phone which relays the data to a server. When you invite people, they're given a link which pulls your data down from the server. Twitter is one way you can send the link out; I don't have a twitter or facebook account so I just use email.
It's a neat system in that it combines the strong points of the phone with those of the watch. You could do the same with just a phone and a third-party app, but GPS is hard on phone batteries and you would get much less time out of it.