I once had a landlord in Detroit who stopped paying his HOA dues In a large complex. I had a court order to pay my rent to the HOA and he was not happy about that. He threatened to evict me (not legal), but then his ex girlfriend got involved. His ex girlfriend was a well known real estate agent with a popular house flipping tv show on national television. She threatened to blacklist me with every major landlord in the city and then only got more aggressive. I looked up the realtors code of conduct, wrote a 10 page complaint to the licensing board with cited evidence, and emailed them a draft with the note “all I want to do is continue to pay my rent and legally occupy this unit. I don’t want to fight, but if we can’t resolve this I will submit it tomorrow.” His girlfriend went away and suddenly I had no problems (and apparently he paid his over due HOA dues). I never mailed the complaint, but I did move out within a few months.
> Correct. They have given up, and it's good that they have, because they've all proven they absolutely suck at it.
I started my career working on Ford Sync. I remember going to an exec fireside-chat type of thing where someone stood up and said "the worst mistake of my career was outsourcing vehicle interiors in the 70s/80s." This was to a group of engineers who were almost entirely outsourcing all of Ford Sync development to an offshore team. They didn't see the irony.
When I bought a car I went out of my way to find a way to avoid having Sync on it. I did succeed, but the best I could do was bug a separate cigarette outlet usb adapter so I could use it instead of the built-in USB port in the car. Why? Because plugging it into the car would force me to inherit all of the bugs in the assumptions built into Sync.
I left Ford with the impression that vehicle OEMs are the Nokias of the auto-world. I wouldn't bet on them to make a good consumer electornics end user experience.