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Re: Future of Quicken?

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Paul Anderson <paulranderson@charter.net> writes:

> In article <1jxkfzp.1sb94vnqymx0N%mikePOST@TOGROUPmacconsult.com>,
>  mikePOST@TOGROUPmacconsult.com (Mike Rosenberg) wrote:
>
>> Quicken Essentials isn't a substitute for ANYTHING as far as I can 
>> tell. I haven't talked to anyone who's happy with it or finds it at 
>> all useful.
>
> Didn't Intuit promise a new full-featured version of Quicken for the 
> Mac at one time?  Is that still in the works?

The closest they've ever come was Quicken 2007.  It's actually
mostly pretty good.  But it's not as full-featured as the
corresponding Windows version and that was the dead end of the
Mac line.  The Windows line has continued to improve.

That part is forgivable.  If Intuit didn't think they were
going to make enough money off of Mac users (and really, since
then there are many excellent alternatives, so it's a much more
competitive world than it was, oh, about 5 years ago when there
really was just Quicken and nothing else) - if they didn't
think the Mac was going to be profitable the unforgivable part
is that they've given us /no way to move our data elsewhere/ -
not, at least, without substantial work and loss of data.
We cannot even move from Quicken for Mac to Quicken for Windows
without loss.  Intuit's own website explains this - Q for Windows
cannot read your Q for Mac data file - you need to export to QIF,
which does not properly handle certain things - and then import
that.  Nobody in their right mind should do so, since moving to
any other product is the same process there's no reason to
stick with an Intuit product.

-- 
Plain Bread alone for e-mail, thanks.  The rest gets trashed.

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