[hnburnsy]

The article complains about Garmins closed ecosystem, totally ignoring the fact that developers cannot create watch faces for Apple Watch, but have free reign on Garmin devices.

Does Garmin charge $100 per year to developers?

[znpy]

> Does Garmin charge $100 per year to developers?

as a consumer i couldn't give half a shit what developers get charged, to be honest

[LtWorf]

Yeah none of your concern, not like they will use you to recuperate their money.

[altairprime]

The inability to create watch faces is normal in wristwatches. It’s a perk of using a smartwatch that you can color-match or custom-design cheaply, but as the lack of market success of that feature has shown, that feature is eclipsed by the platform failures described.