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Posted by wb on September 16, 2007, 10:19 am
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bjn wrote:
> Shhhhh... you promised you wouldn't talk about Intuit's business model for
> Quicken. Now you've let the cat out of the bag.....
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> (you have to remember that Intuit's responsibility is to its shareholders,
> not its customers.)
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> wrote:
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>> Intuit has done what Microsoft tried to do -- force people to
>> subscribe to their product instead of buy it. Because intuit
>> "sunsets" online updates (probably the single most useful feature)
>> after three years they are assured that one third of their customers
>> will "upgrade" each year given them a guaranteed minimum cash flow.
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>> However, to do that they must release a "new" version each year even
>> if the only thing new about it is the version number.
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>>> PT> I have upgraded to quicken 2008 and I am absolutely
>>> PT> disappointed. I have not seen a single feature that was worth
>>> PT> the upgrade. This was the most pointless quicken upgrade in
>>> PT> recent years. I was wondering if this sentiment is shared by
>>> PT> others?
>>> Yes. And not only about Q2008, but about many mature apps, and
>>> probably especially and in particular MS Office 2007 and Vista.
>>>
>>> It's basically a marketing problem. How to provide legitimate support
>>> (bug fixes, some feature additions) to an already established product?
>>> Offer new, full versions is dishonest. But there seems no way to
>>> offer a modest new version at a modest price.
Those coders in India have sooooo many mouths to feed.
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