(Fictitious Scenario) I think someone without a filter like me at Autel should just come out admit and tell us something like,"We really want to give you as much OE coverage as possible, but some of what we were unable to reverse engineer ,really highly encrypted features and make it unique enough in appearance to be called our own and still work.... well some of it just had to be copied, and that got us into Hot Legal Water in the USA market with Ford .At one time our government greatly encouraged wholesale copying of brilliant Western technologies, and just fix the obvious weaknesses and bring it to market at 1/3 the price of competition, making superior knock offs, while weakening Western Industrial capacity.
Westerners driven by Blind Consumerism ,wanting free stuff like downloads of albums of Starving Artist's Music off of You Tube, and downloading other people's software free from Torrents off the web, and getting the most Bang for The Buck from anything and everything, will line up in droves to buy the Latest and Greatest we offer.
Lately The People's Government has sided with some OE car makers who build their cars in new factories here in Mainland China Since most stuff is now made in China now and not much made else where worth copying anymore , our government has changed views, and warned me they'll send armed Soldiers into the software engineering room to make sure the OE software of any manufacturer that is presently in dispute in courts and cease and desist letters from OEs be removed from any future versions of the manufacturers software because the OE's are building cars in Chinese factories now, so it's against the law to copy software of products made internally in Mainland China now.
Ede65 and others , I feel your passion for our product and frustration over things that once worked better than they do now, but don't despair. Some of us engineers don't like what we are seeing and being forced to do at the end of an AK47. Before all the engineers get marched over to the Ford factory to develop the Chinese Ultra IDS, We are going to let you know when an Internet torrent be available with all the repaired and removed stuff back to 1996 model be ready. Ole Buddy ,Just be careful you don't get baited by something out there that might erase everything on it though. Your Brother in Arms, Max Headroom