Strava sues Garmin, demands they stop selling all watches for violating two patents.Update: Strava withdraws suit.

Strava sucks major bowling balls

Strava products guy explains their side of the story...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Strava/s/4LQ0opoFHW

What is Strava? Sounds like a sugar substitute.

Strava is a feel good app for hobbyjoggers. They tell you that you burned 5000 calories when in fact you burned way less.

Kudos, Strava.

The responses in that Reddit thread are very supportive.

(Strava gets shot down in flames.)

Oh, this is a hot and outstanding news.

Strava won't actually let Garmin stop them from using Garmin data over that needing to say it was from Garmin will they? Surely they'd cave to Garmin's very easy to fulfill demands before that right?

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This is big news. Strava about to go public so trying to boost their value. Trouble is most of the paid subscriptions to Strava are from Garmin users, so are those users going to stay loyal to Strava if their watches are dumbed down or have features removed? Can't see Strava winning this one.

Strava is evil. I unsubscribed years ago. I hope this comes back to bite them as hard as possible.

Strava "explaining" that the lawsuit is revenge for an unrelated action by Garmin is, umm, an interesting move. Not a good one though.

Reddit is more unreadable than lets run.

But that thread was even more savage than expected.

Definitely worth the click .

What is Garmin? Sounds like double ply TP.

Would there even be a Strava if there wasn't a Garmin? Garmin has made Strava as big as it is. Seems like they are only hurting themselves.

Back in the early 1980's there was this feud between Nike and Adidas. I worked for Dick's Sporting Goods at the time. I remember the Adidas Rep telling us that it was manufactured by Nike and Adidas to generate publicity.

Hmmmmmm ........

wouldn't be sad if Garmin countered and buried them.

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Sounds like Strava is getting too big for their britches. Strava could disappear tomorrow and some other app will just take it's place.

Strava's IPO wouldn't even be that much. The majority of runners can live without most of the Strava features.

Back in the 00's, reverse engineering was done on Garmin maps and a proprietary compiler was born (cgpsmapper) to create maps for handheld and pc, later mkgmap (open source) followed suit. Eventually cgps dropped out of the game and mkgmap has continued development to this day.

I create and publish free Garmin compatible maps for various regions as do a hand full of other people around the globe, and Garmin has largely done .... nothing. They lose potential sales on maps but have pretty much 100% of the handheld market with their former competitors deep 6'd long ago. Microsoft has done similar by both fighting and "allowing" pirating its os and other software, it is still big and still making money.

This will not end well for stava if the try to fight Garmin. As others have noted, they require Garmin, but Garmin is so diversified they do not require strava. Social media is so fluid with those coming and going strava could go the way of myspace with some other entity rising from the ashes for people to publish and display to the world their workouts