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I've received a basic Garmin watch for my 5 years anniversary with the company I work for and I don't use as:

-The app has dark patterns like: you need to put a weight and height before you proceed with the setup, even though you can remove those later.

-Step counter quite simply doesn't work, as it grossly overestimates the count.

-5 day battery life. Not terrible, but also not practical.

-Notifications. All. The. Time. And about some "fitness goals" I don't remember setting. I have enough distractions from my phone thank you very much.

Who is the target audience for this?



Height and weight are key metrics to compute e.g BMI and VO2max.

The only notifications I get are when an activity gets synced, and I did not set up anything particular, it's all default in that regard.


> The app has dark patterns like: you need to put a weight and height before you proceed with the setup, even though you can remove those later.

That's not a dark pattern. A fitness watch has to know your weight and height for basically all of its fitness related functions...


What if I'm not interested in those and just want the text notifications and maybe my pulse?




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