I like my Garmin, they are making good hardware. But the software is a let-down.

How many users?

A completely unresearched wild-assed guess: and order of magnitude fewer. But they're nuts, and they are loyal repeat customers and evangelists for the platform.

After getting 2 hand me downs from a friend who upgraded, my partner sprung for a new one. Killer features for her: battery life of a week instead of a day and good backcountry navigation.

Garmin connect does exercise challenges too, so there's a social aspect as well.

So is that guess 1 million or 10 million? the article is about how there are about to be 100 million Apple Watch users.

I would definitely like longer battery life on my Apple watch.

Barring that it’d be convenient if the chargers were like lightning and usb-c: available in every gas station, drug store, and dollar store.

Probably somewhere in between? So maybe an order of magnitude and a half fewer? But yeah, the charger thing is real. Her new Garmin uses this weird housed pogo pin connector for charging. The last one used a cradle that hugged the back of the watch; no idea what the electrical connection is.

I can only assume there's a good reason for the non-standard connector, and that it probably involves waterproofing?

I have no horse in this race, to be clear.

The Garmin Fenix is waterproof. I swim with it, I find it really great. I can even operate the watch in the water since it's not a touchscreen. And it would be worth the price just for having an ultra-compact GPS navigation unit for hiking. (It can run turn-by-turn navigation for 2-3 days, in the default low-power mode it can last 3 weeks with heart rate + step tracking + other basic metrics.)

8% of global market share, 37.5% YoY growth:

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200506006138/en/Str...

At least 1 that we know of