dco43054
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OMG! I think a 15 post n00b just tried to insult me.Where did you read or see that no updates will be made? Not sure you read everything, or you are just speculating. Normally, electronics are updated when issues arise, for a period of time anyway. I think we can in the very least expect periodic updates.
Edit: now that you have posted info about the update most of us already knew about, the retardos are going to come out again and spam this thread with "I want an upgrade for free" crap. Ugh!
I normally don't fully quote long posts, but you summarized it well, Sarge.I agree not all upgrades should be free if they add new enhanced functionality but lets cut the sh$$ and be honest here. MFT was and is a disaster. When most of the people here or on other forums ask for free upgrades they are asking for even less functionality than was promised in the early MFT marketing.
When they released MFT they marketed a system that said it would do A,B,C,D,and E,
It couldn't do anything without rebooting, and not only that it would completely shut down, considering its HVAC and other critical vehicle integration this caused some significant issues. Im not talking about not playing the correct song in my library.
Im talking about being out on a highway in the desert with your kids in the car and its 100F and the A/C isnt working because MFT shut down and your looking a blank screen.
Im talking about being somewhere at night when your lost and relying on navigation to get you somewhere safe and it completely shuts down and you get a blank screen. In the middle of the night in some unfamiliar areas thats scary.
And the bigger slap in the face is some IVT rep telling you to do a Master Reset, or disconnect the battery, or twist your body in half and get under the dash to pull fuse #29 , or take it to the dealer.
First off there's no dealer open 24 hrs so thats out for immediate support because you have "book it in", second of all most dealers know less about MFT then the customers driving the car. I have had to print information from this very forum and taken it to the dealer to get them to understand issues. Even then they don't get it.
Im sick and tired of educating the very people who are supposed to be the support system for this poor executed product.
Between 2011 and now we have gained stability and thats it. In order to gain stability we gave up several key features and abandoned hopes of ever seeing other promised features.
Most owners here want the free upgrades to be the very system that was marketed back in 2011, and guess what, that new system just came out with the caveat that the loyal early adopters can't have it without buying another vehicle.
Thats morally and ethically wrong.
Before you criticize people who are asking for what they are promised, n00b, maybe you should go back and read the marketing materials Ford provided when they sold the system, and the early posts in this forum to see all the problems that have been experienced.
All of the problems with MFT have not been fixed, nor are the functions operating the way a quality system should. Why do you think Ford has abandoned the architecture? It's not because they suddenly had a better idea. It's because they can't make MFT and the underlying hardware do what they need it to do.
And last - how about leaving references to the mentally challenged out of your insults? They have much more class and intelligence than you.