Runners and riders have been watching the recent Garmin-Strava fallout with bated breath. After Strava filed a lawsuit in early October over patents covering segments and heatmaps, the fear was that Garmin uploads stop landing in Strava, which would be chaos for a lot of people.
However, the latest update is a positive one. While the lawsuit is far from other, Garmin users can breathe, for now. In a statement sent to TechRadar, on Thursday, Strava confirmed it’ll follow Garmin’s stricter attribution rules, which means more prominent device branding on activities, and - crucially - it’s keeping the Garmin connection live. The statement reads:
