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Got it too. Typical marketing stuff - sell the sizzle not the steak. Not at all personal. Not terribly impressed
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To be fair, it's a huge corporation, the same people are probably not involved in the car. I know I don't want the quality of my work (or my team) to be judged based on the quality of other's in my company.I hate it when links don't work as they should - doesn't give me a lot confidence in Ford's technology. I love the look and feel both inside and out of Mach E but if they don't nail the technology it won't matter how good the car looks. Ford better get its act together - with the Model Y now likely coming out sometime in February they can't afford to be screwing up simple things like web pages.
Whoa, no need to make it personal. The difference between an echo chamber and a public discourse is the ability to civilly express disparate points of view. Of course the team writing the car's software are a different team than the marketing group taking care of the website. The concern is the apparent lack of attention to detail, which CAN be pervasive in an organization - although it probably isn not in this case. It is clear that Ford still has much to work out both with the car AND with the logistics involved in bringing the car to market. That's starting to be a little troubling since production is supposed to start within six months and delivery within ten months. If Ford has their act together all will be great; if not then it could be a mess like the Tesla model 3 launch.Some of these responses/comments are stupid. Somehow a marketing email=technology? Somehow the people sending out these emails are coding the technology.... Some how Tesla is better.... like they don't have issues, Hello, they've had cars run into semi's. They have cars that stop working when there code fills up space. They have terrible quality issues, etc... Tesla's total sales since 2012 are somewhere around 891,000 - that's it. Ford sells around 900,000 F-150 a year. Does anyone know how many lines of code are in a non-ev... No. If you want to buy a Tesla - I have no issues with that. Just let's stop with all this nonsense.
Again please explain:Wow. Ford has made it no secret that they obviously want to compete with Tesla. I have a reservation for the first edition - am I going to cancel that just because of Ford's inability to put together a cohesive web page? Absolutely not. Can I make a comment about Ford's overall commitment to technology based on how well there website works. Absolutely. If should just flat out work and somebody should have made sure that it did.
I have sat in the Mach E and played with big 15.5" touch screen. To say it was buggy would be a vast understatement but I cut them some slack because it was a pre-production model. Having said that it demonstrated to me that they have a long way to go before it will be ready for production.
If they are going to compete in the EV arena they had better bring their "A" game.
I have found compatibility issues with Ford's owner site in Chrome. It does seem to work consistently with Microsoft Edge. You may want to try that.I hate it when links don't work as they should - doesn't give me a lot confidence in Ford's technology. I love the look and feel both inside and out of Mach E but if they don't nail the technology it won't matter how good the car looks. Ford better get its act together - with the Model Y now likely coming out sometime in February they can't afford to be screwing up simple things like web pages.
Working as a platform architect, I don't have to imagine. It's not that it's that difficult (in the way that framing a house isn't that difficult...if it's what you do and you understand it, etc), it's that outsourcing tends to be cheaper for a reason. I've never seen a website/API/application outsourced and turn out as intended. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, and I'm STILL not 100% against outsourcing, I'm just saying...my experience, anecdotal though it may be, should probably bias me further against things than it does.I would be shocked if the website were actually coded / supported in the U.S. That's generally the sort of thing a big company outsources. Note, this is not a statement for / against outsourcing, but you can imagine all the cogs and gears that have to turn correctly to get something like a massive website fully working with a global, outsourced workforce doing the work. It's just a reality of the business.
Here's evidence from Ford's "Making the Mustang Mach-E" video that SYNC 4A uses React in its user interface. The Ford web site is using Angular (its tags are visible in the page sources). Maybe they use both in the same team... who knows. Just thought I'd share this fun view of a tiny bit of SYNC 4A code.... it's a huge corporation, the same people are probably not involved in the car. I know I don't want the quality of my work (or my team) to be judged based on the quality of other's in my company.
As the web team manged to have the launch page open for all to see days before the reveal I should hope so lol. I suspect that for a model that is not out until the end of year it has a lot lower prority when it comes to testing updates.I agree with you that in a company as large as Ford, it's highly unlikely that the ford.com web devs are the same people working on MME or SYNC 4A.