I usually do this to. One thing that I would recommend is to adjust the hood stops to make it a little looser. If yours is the same as mine was it seems to put a lot of pressure on the cord. I don't know how bad this is, but about a quarter turn on the hood stop made it fit a little better.
I don't know if you should get your hopes up. Unless this announcement was specific to the FFE, the ICE focus without MyFord Touch already has AppLink. What makes you think that AppLink is going to work on MFT? I hope you're right, but I'm not that optimistic.