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Quicken for Mac being rewritten Ian McCall 01-19-2008
Posted by Ian McCall on January 19, 2008, 4:01 pm
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 <http://www.macrumors.com/2008/01/18/intuit-to-rewrite-quicken-demos-turbotax-2008/>

I

-really- hope Intuit get this right Intuit. Whilst there's been a slew
of personal finance apps for the Mac recently, none of them have the
depth of Quicken. Its single killer feature, the financial calendar,
simply doesn't exist in any other version.

I've emailed Intuit to request multicurrency support for any new
version, and so get the UK support I need. Has a snowball's chance in
hell of reaching the right people I suppose, but I'm going to throw
that snowball anyway.



Cheers,
Ian
(modified slightly from an earlier post by me in uk.comp.sys.mac)


Posted by bjn on January 20, 2008, 10:08 am
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><http://www.macrumors.com/2008/01/18/intuit-to-rewrite-quicken-demos-turbotax-2008/>
>
>I -really- hope Intuit get this right Intuit.

So do I. But I am not encouraged, since so far there has been zero mention
of the ability to directly import a Quicken for Windows data file.


>Whilst there's been a slew
>of personal finance apps for the Mac recently, none of them have the
>depth of Quicken. Its single killer feature, the financial calendar,
>simply doesn't exist in any other version.

In Quicken for Windows, features were removed from the financial calendar
in the QW2006 release. It appears that Intuit does not think the financial
calendar is an important feature, if they are slowly reducing its features.




Posted by bjn on January 20, 2008, 10:09 am
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><http://www.macrumors.com/2008/01/18/intuit-to-rewrite-quicken-demos-turbotax-2008/>
>
> Whilst there's been a slew
>of personal finance apps for the Mac recently,


Have you tried this one? If so, what did you think of it?

http://www.iggsoftware.com/ibank/



Posted by Ian McCall on January 20, 2008, 10:22 am
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>
>>
<http://www.macrumors.com/2008/01/18/intuit-to-rewrite-quicken-demos-turbotax-2008/>

Whilst
>>
>> there's been a slew
>> of personal finance apps for the Mac recently,
>
>
> Have you tried this one? If so, what did you think of it?
>
> http://www.iggsoftware.com/ibank/

As I remember, I tried this some time ago and after over 20 minutes of
it trying to import my Quicken data (spinning beachball) I force quit
and gave up. It may well have improved since then however, that was
around the middle of last year.

I've tried just about all of them, and the single feature I need - show
me how much money I'm going to have on a specific day a la Quicken's
financial calendar with balance graph - is not available on any of
them. That's it - that's the one feature I really cannot live without.


Cheers,
Ian


Posted by bjn on January 21, 2008, 8:53 am
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>I've tried just about all of them, and the single feature I need - show
>me how much money I'm going to have on a specific day a la Quicken's
>financial calendar with balance graph - is not available on any of
>them.


<sigh> That's a feature I liked as well. However, Intuit has removed
functionality from that feature in Quicken for Windows 2006 (or it may have
been 2005).

I have written Intuit's customer service about it, and the reply that I got
back was the functionality removal was not a bug, it is working as
designed.


Complacency. Lack of customer focus. That's the disease that Intuit has.

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