Bluetooth doesn't work on iPhone6 and no restore from iTunes

Once again Apple released a buggy phone. Much like the iPhone5, iPhone6 has already shown issues in the connectivity department. Thousands of users have already blogged about it all over the internet, so I hope that Apple steps up to the plate and fixes the issue ASAP.
Bluetooth DOES NOT WORK! Tested repeatedly on my 2014 Super Duty, 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee Overland, 2014 Ford Mustang GT, 2013 Scion FR-S. The device struggled to pair on each and every vehicle. Once finally conncted the voice commands don't work, and good luck trying to answer the phone!! If you manage to (highly unlikely), the conversation is possible only through the phone, not through Bluetooth.
Get with the program Apple. If you released a phone that was not ready for release just to compete with Samsung, LG and HTC, that says a lot about your company. The customers are not guinea pigs - If you intended to use the public as testers, you should have given all of us a considerable discount on the purchase and warned us about the potential bugs.
Additionally the data restore from iPhone5 through both iTunes (v11.4.0.18 which is the latest one) and/or iCloud, doesn't work either. My iPhone5 was successfully updated to IOS8 and backed up on iTunes. As soon as I connected the iPhone6 and tried to restore the backup, an untrue pop up saying "iTunes cannot restore your backup because it's either corrupted or incompatible with this device" showed on my screen. I performed 5 backups of my iPhone5 through iTunes (all of them competed successfully by the way), but each time I tried to restore them on the iPhone6, I got the same error message.
Being an IT guy I started fiddling with settings, hidden files, locked files, until I got it to work by simply checking the "encrypt backup" box in iTunes. It was a big waste of time, and it would be nice if Apple knew about these issues before they released a new phone.
P.S. THe internet is full of blogs about this backup restore issue on iPhone6: obviously I was not the only one.
Get it together Apple.

I'm sorry you're not having a positive experience.  I set up two iPhone 6's from iPhone 5 backup's via Wifi and paired both seamlessly with our 2012 Mercedes cars without an difficulty.
I don't know if this is your first post, but you are not writing Apple on this forum.  This is a user to user forum and you are only writing other users.  If you are not pleased, feel free to contact Apple directly via the link I've supplied.  I hope you get your issues resolved to your satisfaction.  But because you are having issues, does not mean everyone is.  I know lot's of people who now have iPhone 6.  None of them have experienced any issues pairing to their cars Bluetooth system, or setting them up from previous phone backups.
https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

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