Confusion will wear off in a few days.
If you have MFT w/ Sync, then there is nothing additional you can get except a VHR-'vehicle health report' sent from your car via your connected phone to your owner acct online at fordowner.com.
This isnt used for anything so its more for you to view any problems with the most basic car maintenance items-oil, washer fluid, air, misc list of similar.
Cars without MFT can use Sync for a few more things, including AppLink to connect apps from their phone to the car while connected.
MFT=MyFordTouch - touch screen controller in car.
It has 4 quadrants controlling 4 items-Phone, Climate, Nav, Music.
MFT can be a wifi hot spot also, but without tethering it to your cellphone, itself a hot spot, MFT cant connect to anything by itself, no internal cellular connectivity is yet to be included.
Sync=name of sync-ing capable product & service, but is only in some models.
Sync in cars without the touch screen has the most features.
Sync in MFT cars is a couple services that can be sent from the web to your phone to your car, like directions you plotted online for a trip. The rest are features of MFT that are called Sync-like connecting your music player to MFT is a Sync function, but is really just plugging a device into the USB port of MFT.
...essentially nothing but a name derived from Microsoft's ActiveSync technology that began as syncing between a PDA and your PC or Outlook, then later Windows phones and your Outlook, and scanners and inventory devices and your PC. It allowed Windows & USB devices to pair up and work or share operations or data or both.
AppLink-app-linking conduit in MFT that was to connect your smartphone to the car and share certain or many apps.
Was touted and promised as next gen connectivity utilizing smartphone integration with the vehicle infotainment system.
Then for MFT cars-they left it at that, twas never mentioned again.
In MFT equipped cars, it does nothing.
No one knows why for sure.
