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 weekend… I can tell you that much. And then DCR had to blow it all up again yesterday
What’s that silly statement about “living in interesting times…”?
Perhaps “sloppiness” 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, I’d have expected Nate to be like
Chances of this happening are VERY high. I think Nate is smart enough to distinguish between a good offer and an offer he can’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.
It surprises me how many people think there is no way Nate would sell. He’s had so much happen in his life and he’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. He’s talked recently about licensing functionality. Then take a look at all the negativity and entitlement from users (me included) and it’s hard for me to NOT think he’d at least consider it and see it as an opportunity.
I don’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 that’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.
All this talk of Zwift using TR features. I’d be happy if TR licensed Zwift’s power based mileage! The totally meaningless Strava speed/distance totals of TR always make me sad.