How long can Intuit ignore Mac users?

[MotionMan]

Now, the only reason I use Parallels/Windows at home is to run Quicken. I would gladly pay full price for a Quicken for Mac that is on par with Quicken for Windows.

Seriously, how long can Intuit ignore Mac users?

And no Quicken app for iOS? Really? How smart is it for a software business not have an app for the iPad/iPhone?

MotionMan

 

[FMX]

There are plenty of "software businesses" but far fewer businesses who make software for businesses. When you think of business and software, you think Windows. Thats just how it is. Just like design and software says Mac. Why pay two different dev teams when the majority have adopted the same system.

 

[MotionMan]

There are plenty of "software businesses" but far fewer businesses who make software for businesses. When you think of business and software, you think Windows. Thats just how it is. Just like design and software says Mac. Why pay two different dev teams when the majority have adopted the same system.

Quicken is not for businesses. It is for home use.

MotionMan

 

[rugby]

They ignore Windows users as well. I use Quickbooks on Fusion/Win7 to run my business and it's looked IDENTICAL for going on a decade now. No useful additional features added, just more bloat.

It's all going web-based anyways, standalone apps for this stuff are dying breed.

 

[FMX]

Touche but Intuit is a business centric company.

Isn't Mint the replacement for Quicken? Mobile and cloud based and def has an iOS app. Same features but better and easier to use.

 

[MotionMan]

Touche but Intuit is a business centric company.

Yet they seem perfectly capable of producing a number of software items for home users on Windows.

Isn't Mint the replacement for Quicken? Mobile and cloud based and def has an iOS app. Same features but better and easier to use.

No, Mint is not anything close to a replacement for Quicken.

MotionMan

 

[BlueWeasel]

They ignore Windows users as well. I use Quickbooks on Fusion/Win7 to run my business and it's looked IDENTICAL for going on a decade now. No useful additional features added, just more bloat.

It's all going web-based anyways, standalone apps for this stuff are dying breed.

That's so true. We've used QB's at work for 15 years now (small business). We use the Timer program to track our hours and I swear, it looks pretty much like it did in the late '90s.

 

[MotionMan]

That all being said, no matter how outdated it seems, I would be a VERY happy person if I could get the same version from Windows Quicken in OSX.

MotionMan

 

[rugby]

It's not just Intuit, we've been demoing several business management apps on Windows and they ALL look like garbage. The Windows mindset is just "function over form" to the point of being awful to use.

 

[ControlD]

The simple answer is that Intuit can ignore Mac users until it no longer makes economic sense for them to do so. OS X is still way behind Windows in total number of users. Of those Mac users there is a relatively small percentage that will buy Quicken even if it was available. I would guess the percentage is about as small as with Windows users, but there you have a much larger multiplier because the user base is so much larger.

If OS X continues to see growth then you will start to see companies like Intuit porting their software to Mac (chances are many companies are already working or looking into it anyhow). Until then there probably isn't a huge economic incentive to do so.

 

[SNC]

They are working on a version now.

 

[rugby]

They are working on a version now.

I'm not holding my breath. Quicken Essentials pissed off a LOT of Mac users, to the point of Intuit needing to go back and modernize Quicken 2007 for Lion compatibility.

They actually kicked me off their beta team when I kept blasting them for their shitty Mac ports. I was on there for a few years and finally gave up, it was like trying to reason with a brick wall.

 

[FoxFifth]

I got a MacBook Air 2 weeks ago and Quicken is the only issue so far. I won't install Windows on the Air just for Quicken although I briefly considered it. I researched Quicken Essentials for Mac and also Mint and ruled both out. Actually, I researched Mint even before I got the Air as I wanted something cloud-based where my wife and I could both update the same file from different computers (ended up using a workaround with Dropbox). I'm more surprised at Intuit's (or someone else's) lack of progress in the Mint arena than in the Mac area as it seems to me there would be a huge market.

Currently I'm testing iBank with a 30 day free trial. So far it seems to do what I need and it imported my Quicken data. The main downsides at this point is that, like Quicken, it is single user and while it seems to have mostly similar capabilities, there is a learning curve and it is taking more of my time than I would like.

 

[Eug]

I gave up on Intuit years ago. I just run it on my PC, a version several years old. Actually, I'd be fine running a version several years older too, cuz it's as if they just change a date and then add some irrelevant features... and then slow it down with each revision.

One of my biggest beefs was that Quicken for Mac wouldn't import all my Quicken for Windows data, but what's even worse was that I couldn't reverse it if I needed to. I don't know if that's changed, but like I said I gave up on Intuit years ago.

 

[Spineshank]

Now, the only reason I use Parallels/Windows at home is to run Quicken. I would gladly pay full price for a Quicken for Mac that is on par with Quicken for Windows.

Seriously, how long can Intuit ignore Mac users?

And no Quicken app for iOS? Really? How smart is it for a software business not have an app for the iPad/iPhone?

MotionMan

Same here. I do use my office softphone sometimes but my main purpose is Quicken.