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Navihood Cycling APP — Building a Seamless Bridge Between Navihood Users and Platforms Like Strava

One of the most significant industry events last year was the dispute between Strava and Garmin.In October 2025, Strava formally filed a lawsuit against industry leader Garmin, accusing it of violating their cooperation agreement and copying Strava’s core patented technologies, including Segments , Heatmaps , and route recommendation features . At the same time, Garmin updated its API policies, imposing stricter limitations on how third-party platforms can use and display data. This indirectly affected Strava’s data synchronization and user experience. These developments triggered strong reactions from users and highlighted an increasingly intense battle over data control, feature innovation, and ownership of the user experience . As a company whose core business is hardware sales, we closely follow how leading platforms and brands cooperate—and compete—with each other. As a team that has long focused on GPS cycling computers as our core product, hardware has always been our founda...