Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!aioe.org!feeder.news-service.com!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!209.197.12.242.MISMATCH!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!209.197.12.246.MISMATCH!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!panix!not-for-mail From: BreadWithSpam@fractious.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Future of Quicken? Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 11:34:08 -0500 Organization: dyslexic agnostics unsure about a dog Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <1jxkfzp.1sb94vnqymx0N%mikePOST@TOGROUPmacconsult.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix1.panix.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1299256449 21681 166.84.1.1 (4 Mar 2011 16:34:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 16:34:09 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:XstasDhaAjF9z8hX/SM+jqcYxgc= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.sys.mac.apps:385 Paul Anderson 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.