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> I think most every consumer looks at it like they look at every other recurring service This may not address your comment directly, but I can feel a strawman
by aliqot 4y ago
> I think most every consumer looks at it like they look at every other recurring service
This may not address your comment directly, but I can feel a strawman forming that I'd like to get ahead of for others.
Fitness and entertainment are not comparable. If you're into fitness, you're in 100%, especially so at the competitive level. If you're an entertainment person, don't compare it to your Netflix bill, compare it to your grocery bill. Suddenly it makes sense.
- operatingthetan 4y agoNobody considers Strava's training tools 'serious.' It's a social network for training. The premium tools all have better versions on other platforms like Training Peaks, Xert, TrainerRoad etc. that literally every athelete uses instead. No athlete is sharing their training data with their coach on Strava, so given that I think comparisons to entertainment are fair. >but I can feel a strawman forming Let's address fallacies as they happen instead of before they do, okay? I find this uncharitable.
- kmonsen 4y agoOr even Garmin connect, I was looking for a coach and most wanted to use some sort of training peaks/garmin combo. They were actually, please don't use Strava. You will not follow the training plan and just exhaust yourself to set a PR when I want you to be slow and consistent instead.
- operatingthetan 4y agoI had a friend who did that exact thing. Was a decent cat 2 or 3 at that point but was constantly chasing KOMs and burned themselves out hard.
- Fordec 4y agoWell my Netflix and UberEats bills are $0 and if a subscription service is to be compared to a basic human need as food itself, that's a bit of a complete misunderstanding of a general humans hierarchy of needs. That applies to any entertainment service.