I got free use of the app whilst the bugs were being ironed out, they got my help identifying the bugs, we both get a working version of the app at the end. I was happy to shoulder the £100+ for two HRM monitors and £50 for cadence sensors rather than wait for the final working app and just use my existing Ant+ gear. Why not? Because it’s just an earlyish beta and doesn’t fully implement and support BTE. My phone and tablet see the device, other apps see the device, Zwift doesn’t. Two new HRM sensors in fact because the first wasn’t recognised by the app. They get all of the benefit and money, I get… to shoulder the expense of new sensors because my cadence and HRM were Ant+. To ask us to pay for that removes the mutual from the equation. I get to help bring the product I want to market, on the platform I need. They get free testing and feedback for their product, across thousands of different devices & millions of equipment permutations to help them build a product they can sell for a profit. Apps I was happily using before.īeta testing is a mutually beneficial process. Apps with stable Bluetooth and Ant+ links. going to pay me for my work, give me a cut of the profit, discount my subscription for two years? Of course not, so why am I going to pay to help them? Especially when there are other fully dev’d and working apps that I can use for a similar price. Once it works and is on general release are Zwift Inc. It is an affront to be asked to pay, to help Zwift Inc. I was happy to help whilst I was not paying for the privilege of constantly being kicked out of rides, training sessions, events and races.This is not a finished product and for many it barely functions at times. Currently I only use android and so want the app to function correctly on the platform. I don’t have a PC, my Macbook Pro was moth balled 5 years ago and I have no iOS devices. I used the app at such a poor level of quality only because I was happy to be helping to get it on android. Often drops dozens of times and sometimes I’m unable to reconnect it. I am guaranteed to lose my data link at least once in any given ride. Frustratingly because of the abysmal bluetooth data stability in this app. I’ve been rather frustratingly testing the Android Beta since January.
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