Serious update for Ambit3 users
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@TELE-HO Sadly I’ve had to become quite cynical about sports tech - when it comes to hardware I only buy stuff that has all the features I need already present (and don’t rely on promises of future updates) and when it comes to cloud based analysis/storage I make sure I have an offline backup of all my workouts and one eye on what else is out there.
I’ve moved analysis software a number of times now after ‘updates’ from the supplying company…
But this is the first time I’ve had a supplier threaten to take away functionality from a hardware device I already own, that’s a new low…
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enable key functionality (including watch […] )
Well … Maybe SW it’s a Key Functionality.
Settings are part of the “including” section of the sentence imho -
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@amasidlover noone is threatening you. On the contrary they are offering development and value added spending resources on this.
To be honest here, all SW connected devices , from Nexus phones to iphones eventually have apps not being able to run on them. Its not the first company nor the last todo so.
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@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos Sorry, I didn’t intend to use ‘threaten’ in an aggressive sense, simply in the sense that it looks like something bad may happen; e.g. it was threatening to rain…
I would disagree with your analogy though; as far as I’m concerned, structured intervals are an existing feature of the watch, if I have no way to configure them then that takes away a feature of the watch.
If I were complaining that the Ambit3 wasn’t getting new ‘apps’ like the “sleep quality assessment” then I would totally agree that would be an unreasonable complaint - and would be like asking for the latest Adobe Photoshop to run on a Windows XP computer.
Anyway, its currently not clear what’s going to happen on structured workouts… I have emailed Suunto Support and maybe I will get a definitive answer.
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@TELE-HO @amasidlover @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos IMHO, we have another case study in communication fail, at least for some FAQ in the forum. The only thing we learned is that our A3/traverse watches will probably work in the future. But nothing more (OK, it is a first step to appease us).
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Is SA will add full support for A3 ? We don’t know…
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What will be the future web service (if something is really proposed next to SA) ? We don’t know (except that something will maintain key features)
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What happens after 18/12/19 if you need to change your phone ? We don’t know, except that the movescount app will not be on Google play (.apk backup done !). So without SA support, A3 users always needs a computer to setup a workout…
It seems not complicated, one year after basic support : is full support is planned ? Yes or no. Dev team, top management or who you want implicated in Vaanta already know about it, but after this statement the user community still don’t know nothing…
An optimistic note : 18/12/19 is one year after the real last SA update which bring A3 basic support, and will be the MC App shutdown date. For this birthday, we will have SA 5.0 with full A3 support
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Finally some news. Still not enough but that’s something we got used to with suunto already I guess.
To sum it up for ambits:
- movescount app will be removed from app stores from December 18
- movescount web will be crippled to offer just settings, sport mode customization and routes
- Suuntolink will replace moveslink and will be used to sync our moves to Suunto App and settings from movescount web
What remains unclear:
- Will ambit3 get proper support in Suunto app or will it just retain current features (sync, GPS update, notifications and moves analysis/sharing) - meaning no changing settings, no route-Poi load/create/edit in SA?
- structured workouts are movescount app feature - will suunto move that to movescount web or we lose this important feature?
I welcome the decision to keep movescount web as it is really a cornerstone of the whole ecosystem of ambits. I understand that they want to transfer as many users of movescount with spartans and 9 to SA as possible. That’s probably the reason for removing Movescount app from app stores. But still I think it would be better to let ambit3 users download and use movescount app until they make SA more A3 friendly. People are changing their phones quite often these days. Why would you force them to use unfinished app (for ambits at least)? Make it right and then let us transfer to SA completely and stress free.
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@Prenj there is a thing to think about. At some point (and already happening) the MC app wont work due to iOS / Android updates.
Also from what I read I dont see why the “new” mc wont have activity analysis. Imo they will shutdown things like social
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@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos
so you see a chance that future MC will be the web end to SA?
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@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said in Serious update for Ambit3 users:
@Prenj there is a thing to think about. At some point (and already happening) the MC app wont work due to iOS / Android updates.
Also from what I read I dont see why the “new” mc wont have activity analysis. Imo they will shutdown things like social
Well if they keep analysis that would be great, but I didn’t get this impression from reading the statement. I hope you are right as I find Movescount analysis much better than the one in SA.
What about apps? Any updates on this?
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@TELE-HO I dont know my friend to answer this because in these decisions my task is to collect feedback.
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@Prenj said in Serious update for Ambit3 users:
What about apps? Any updates on this?
apps is THE selling point of ambit
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@Prenj WIhtout knowning and without wanting to raise hopes or anything like that, just sharing my opinion I do think analysis will still be there, and apps as well. I dont see any reasons (even to save up $$) why those should go away.
On a side note, analysis (summaries) comes to SA , and already many other apps, like my own offer a pretty solid view. I am not saying the prev sentence to indicate that this should be leveraged to others (3rd parties) but that rather , an Ambit 1 user for example will be able to sync via SL to any other 3rd party , something that was quite limited in the past.
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@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos
yes I understand that
my feedback: SA + future MC = top notch, because I learn to love SA day by day more but miss the web service on the other hand… -
@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said in Serious update for Ambit3 users:
like my own offer
QS gets a direct partner connection to SA? nice
will QS show the activities description in the dashboard, too? I mean the one that some of us add to give the specific activity a unique “name”…and while I’m already asking (in an offtopic thread…) I have in QS stuff back to 2018 but my all data would go back to 2016… is there a way to add this data in QS?
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@TELE-HO Lets pm all those are there
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So in response to ‘how do I configure structured workouts on my Ambit 3 if I change mobile devices after 18th of December?’ question, I received:
“We understand this is important for you. No official announcement regarding structured work-outs sadly. You will surely be updated on the planned changes and your insights will be included in our discussions.”
Make of that what you will…
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@amasidlover said in Serious update for Ambit3 users:
So in response to ‘how do I configure structured workouts on my Ambit 3 if I change mobile devices after 18th of December?’ question, I received:
After official MC google play retirement, there will be surely apk to be shared to install again MC app.
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@Mff73 Installing the apk is fine until its no longer compatible with current Android… To be fair, as an Ambit3 user, if it gets to that point and all other functionality is OK then I can still sell the watch for a fair price and replace it with something else.
Thankfully we’re not going to be in the position of not being able to modify any settings; that would have made the device un-sellable secondhand…
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@amasidlover I dont think that would be the case. From what I understand the app downside is no structured intervals