Ford's AppLink-enabled apps run on your iOS/Android phone and the vehicle's voice control and buttons are additional interfaces to control the app that's runnin

Ford's AppLink-enabled apps run on your iOS/Android phone and the vehicle's voice control and buttons are additional interfaces to control the app that's running on your phone. So regular Pandora from Google Play or the App Store has the code to integrate with AppLink vehicles in it already. This is different from GM's approach, where the apps are built to run on the vehicle's own hardware.