Zwift "Premium", TR Merger or Add-In speculation

@Power13 :man_facepalming: on my part. I am sorry. Sorry so much happening in TR world in the last 24 hours so I made the mistake of inferring.

What if all these high level execs are just friends and like to use each others platforms? Just dudes and dudettes being bros.

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What did I miss here? Link?

Iā€™m nominating @killroy123 for thread MVP.

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LOLā€¦no issues. Definitely a crazy few days. Threads blowing up left, right and center!!

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The forum has been active since Friday morning, and that was after the pricing topic finally started to lose steam. Ivy and I were ready for the weekendā€¦ I can tell you that much. And then DCR had to blow it all up again yesterday :stuck_out_tongue:

Whatā€™s that silly statement about ā€œliving in interesting timesā€¦ā€? :wink:

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Undoubtedly said by someone living a calm and peaceful life without worriesā€¦:rofl:

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Feature request - another holiday gift for @mcneese.chad

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In the run up to cape epic one of South African lads mentioned his zwift power numbers and I think they were both TR employees

Perhaps ā€œsloppinessā€ is too strong a word on my part, but I still think they should have known someone would have put those pieces together. Knowing this forum alone, Iā€™d have expected Nate to be like

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Makes me think it was intentional. Someone earlier in this thread said it could be Min using it as leverage for another program such as Xert. Perhaps?

Chances of this happening are VERY high. I think Nate is smart enough to distinguish between a good offer and an offer he canā€™t refuse.
If this happens it will be because Zwift gave TR an offer that would be foolish to turn down.

Now, what I can see happening is a slow merge. Where TR stay as an independently run company for a few years, while Zwift integrates TR into their systems.

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It surprises me how many people think there is no way Nate would sell. Heā€™s had so much happen in his life and heā€™s always been very clear that he sees himself as someone who is driven by wanting to solve big problems and could move on to the next thing eventually. The team has split up and live in different places now. Heā€™s talked recently about licensing functionality. Then take a look at all the negativity and entitlement from users (me included) and itā€™s hard for me to NOT think heā€™d at least consider it and see it as an opportunity.

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I hope soā€¦ but Iā€™m not convinced that the people at Zwift are that sensible.

Well it could be a slow merge due to sheer incompetence as wellā€¦ Look at Zwift Power theyā€™re just getting around to actually integrating it.

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Iā€™m sure kickr direct connect support is just around the corner.

I donā€™t think there is any chance of merging the two products into one, even if both companies merge together.
TR and Zwift have a lot of duplicate technology between them yet nothing in common. Zwift is facing massive technical debt and trying to integrate something as big as TR, right now is going to take a lot of effort and time, with the current pace of things at Zwift thatā€™s like a decade of work and a lot of hard decisions to make along the way.
My hypothesis, TR just made a pretty good Adaptive Training API, they are offering it to select competitors and Zwift are curious if they can do something with it.

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I advise everyone to listen to this: key bit from 23:30.

Zwift will open up a huge new customer base for TR, leveraging the marketing power of Zwift.

One thing is certainly not up for debateā€¦ our forum is better than their forum and should be the one that stays :eyes:

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