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Intuit Quicken For Mac 201110/21/2021
After that, more than a year went by with rumors escalating that the product was not long for this world.In early 2008, the company announced it would completely rewrite Quicken, and promised a new product called Quicken Financial Life for Mac in fall of 2008. Quicken Premier, and Quicken Home & Business, as well as Quicken for Mac.It’s been nearly four years since the most recent release of Quicken for the Mac, Quicken Mac 2007 ( ), released in mid-2006. Use the same data file format, it would mean the loss of the Home & Business features.On March 3, 2016, Intuit announced plans to sell Quicken to H.I.G.It shouldn’t matter if you’re using Mac, PC, iPhone, Android, or online” when it comes to features and data availability. “Over time, you’ll start to see features and functionality for all the platforms come together. Patzer says he “personally specced out” Quicken for Windows 2011. So we had to decide, do we want to put a product out that serves 80 percent of the market and is a vast improvement in so many ways, or do we delay it again? And what I thought was, given the growing popularity of the Mac platform… it was better to get a product out that’s good for 80 percent of the market.”Next year, Patzer said, Intuit will release both an updated version of Essentials as well as a true Quicken Deluxe version “that would have the stock-lot accounting and potentially bill pay—those are two top candidates.”The Budget view gives you feedback on your spending and lets you set realistic goals.Beyond that, Patzer says that you’ll see more similarities to Mint.com in the desktop Quicken products. “It’s called ‘Mac Essentials’ because it’s got the essential features used by 80 percent of the users we’ve surveyed and talked to.If Quicken Essentials for Mac appears in Apple retail stores and becomes a hot seller—which will probably happen if Patzer’s suggestion that 80 percent of users will be satisfied by its feature set is true—then the company’s decision to release a limited-functionality product this year will have been a smart one. My conversation with Patzer suggests that he’s committed to fixing what was obviously a broken system, at least where Intuit’s Mac products were concerned, but that there was no way for him to completely rectify matters in the few months he’s been on the job.But Internet message boards aren’t always the best barometer of how the world at large will react. What happens now?The big question is, how will Quicken Essentials for Mac be received by the general public? If Internet message boards ( including our own) are any indication, there’s not a lot of love lost between Quicken users and Intuit.As for the product itself, stay tuned—we’ll be reviewing the final version of Quicken Essentials for Mac soon. I’m sure we’ll discover in the comments thread attached to this story just how angry longtime Quicken users are about this release. Some users may take advantage of virtualization features of Intel-based Macs to run Quicken for Windows, while others may consider a different program or even a Website such as Mint.com (which unfortunately doesn’t allow you to import your years of historical Quicken data).There’s no way to divine what the final chapter of this long, ugly story will be.
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