SKS22
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This choice always bothered me. Why try to lock us into a particular ecosystem? The Descent Mk2i is an absolutely fantastic piece of kit. Garmin doesn't need to resort to this sort of petty lock-in.- you can export dives from the log on the Teric directly into the 3rd party dive log software of your choice. If you want to use, for example, Subsurface (a free dive log) with your Garmin, you have to download the dives to Garmin first, then export them, THEN import them into Subsurface. Because Garmin declined to cooperate with the Subsurface team and facilitate the ability for Subsurface to download directly from the Descent. I download directly from any of my Shearwater computers, via Bluetooth, directly into Subsurface. Often, during the boat ride back to the dock.
I prefer to use Subsurface over any manufacturer's proprietary dive log because, for one thing, I have used many different computers and expect to use more in the future and I want to have ONE dive log that contains ALL my dives, from all the different computers I have used. Subsurface gives me that. And two, I do not want all my dive log data stored by some company who could lose it or just choose to turn that service off or choose to start charging money for it, and me be left with no practical recourse and also no log of all my dives.
Now the choice bothers me even more. Garmin amended services available in the Explore App post facto. Now, they are playing with Connect, though not (currently) taking anything away from me (some say they removed features a year ago and reintroduced them in Connect+ but I cannot confirm that because I had not been using those features). Now I am wondering if they're going to try to monetize the Dive App next? Is that among the reasons they make taking my dives with me if I leave such a bother?