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« Last post by mdsalemi on Today at 14:36:35 »...It was set up as a "review" program, but my understanding is this was just was done for tax reasons.
When Ford first introduced their integral "infotainment system" called "Sync" (wholly written by Microsoft, which was badged as such in the car) it was, IMHO, about 85% perfect on V1. Had it on a Ford Contour. Loved it. Then, those brilliant minds--the engineers at Ford--could do it better and cheaper than Microsoft, and their new and improved model was called MyFordTouch (MFT) Introduced on a Ford Edge. It was a kluge; a horrendous downgrade in every way imaginable. It was so bad, that the CEO (under deposition in a legal issue) admitted to smashing the screen in frustration.
When it was time for review, I gave it to them with both barrels, and was called down to a lab in Dearborn. There, to a 20 something year old software engineer, had to explain a LOT of things to him (which he took back to the design team) which at first he did not really understand. Things like organization of metadata on music sorting, something that was perfect on Sync V1, all screwed up on MFT. Placement and style of the 4-way emergency flasher button, and a few other things. I'm happy to report that all my complaints (and I'm not so entitled to think I was the only one with them; think of the CEO who smashed the screen) were addressed in a serious update.
At Ford, at least, these reviews were a bit more than for tax reasons. Sometimes they listened.