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That’s a really great point and another reason I’ve really enjoyed the Garmin experience – Garmin doesn’t try to sell your own data back to you.

Getting anything more than the absolute most basic of real time data out of a Fitbit requires an annual subscription. With Garmin, it’s just there.


Fitbit is owned by Google and has the same policy of not repairing cracked screens.

I owned a Sense 2 and was in a bicycle crash. Screen hit the pavement and shattered. Absolutely no options from Fitibit/Google to get it repaired.

I switched to Garmin and couldn’t be happier.




Hall effect has been the norm in all but the cheapest sim gear (sticks, throttles, etc) for a very long time now.

Hall effect gimbals on radio control/drone controllers have been pretty common for some time, too.

It’s mostly that this is a solved problem that more general purpose controllers are just now catching up to after the problem’s been exacerbated by the smaller gimbals used in modern controllers.