Excited for this!
I look forward to seeing my net value all on one page
Excited for this!
Perhaps the iPad emulator in Xcode has generic graphics that aren't tied to a specific model? I'm not an iOS developer so this is merely a guess.
I have been using mint.com for 4 years now and have not paid one cent to them. How is that not truly free?Although Mint.com certainly does offer a lot of convenient and useful features (their graphs are actually nicely done) their service isn't truly free and people are fooling themselves if they believe otherwise.
How are targeted advertisements invading your privacy? When mint.com notices that 40% of your credit card transactions are to gas stations, they show you a credit card that offers 5% back on all gas station purchases. I think that's a great idea. How is that invasive and hurtful to your financial privacy? Seems like a customized offering to me!For agreeing to use Mint.com's services, at a minimum, you're agreeing to let them data-mine all your spending habits, and target you with advertisements; sorry but that is a HUGE deal breaker for me, and I value my financial privacy way too much to agree to that invasive nonsense.
Don't speak for me, I actually really enjoy using mint.com on a daily basis, and enjoy my transactions being loaded automatically. For Free.I also suspect I'm not the only one that feels this way.
I have been using mint.com for 4 years now and have not paid one cent to them. How is that not truly free?
How are targeted advertisements invading your privacy? When mint.com notices that 40% of your credit card transactions are to gas stations, they show you a credit card that offers 5% back on all gas station purchases. I think that's a great idea. How is that invasive and hurtful to your financial privacy? Seems like a customized offering to me!
I also suspect I'm not the only one that feels this way.
Don't speak for me, I actually really enjoy using mint.com on a daily basis, and enjoy my transactions being loaded automatically. For Free.
Did you even bother to read what I actually posted?! Here's the Mint.com security related links again (see here and here) and if they fixed those issues then JOY TO THE WORLD but those things still pose legitimate concerns overall because of the nature of it's web-based interface, which is another reason why I prefer *not* to use their service. But again, to each their own.
Listen Ace, I wasn't "speaking for you" so don't take my words out of context. First learn to read, then re-read that paragraph I wrote before taking it all deeply personal or whatever. I don't even know you, and this is the first time I've encountered you on this forum so how exactly was I "speaking for you" before I even knew you existed?! You only got 4 posts to your credit on here so ease up on your rhetoric.
Bottom line: It costs them time, resources, and manpower to create and maintain this software that you seem to enjoy utilizing so much, and if you think they're just giving it away for you to use without a return on their investment then you're just naive about the true nature of things. Tracking your personal spending habits is worth a lot more to them than building an app that you can only access via the internet, and once this data is in hand they can upsell you on crappy credit card deals you seem to really like, all while collecting and profiting off your future financial data updates that you willfully provide them with for "free".
I don't think too many people are going to like opening up their iBank app to see a huge negative number indicating their net worth. Would also be a tad bit embarrassing when using on an airline or in a crowded area.
Predicting a flop
When you say "I also suspect I'm not the only one that feels this way", I feel as though that is an unfair assumption, and that you are speaking for everyone.
As for me only having 4 posts; what does that matter? My opinion matters just as much as yours. You don't have anymore "macrumors" clout than I do, and if you think you do, you're a sad soul.
I did read your post in full, and I did read the links. I chose to ignore them because they were both 1 and 2 years old. Things have changed since then. They may not have addressed and fixed all of your concerns, but they will always need some sort of access to your accounts in order to work the "mint.com way"
So, let's just agree to disagree on this one.
My point about your 4 posts earlier is that apparently you "just got here"
got it chap?
Agreed-we shall agree that we disagree
HOWEVER...you made another dumbass assumption...
I've been "here" longer than you've had ball hair, so take your ball (and hand-written financial ledger) and go home. Stop being a hypocritical sack rider.
I don't think this is grounds to call the software a "flop". If you're worried about people seeing your financial history, don't open the app in public. When is the last time you've balanced your checkbook or counted all of your benjamins in public? Unless you're Floyd Mayweather and like to make it rain, I doubt that you have done either.
Embarassed about a negative net worth? That's the fact of life for a vast majority of people with mortgages. People hiding from the truth of a negative net worth is also part of the reason why we as a country are in the financial mess we are!
I don't think too many people are going to like opening up their iBank app to see a huge negative number indicating their net worth. Would also be a tad bit embarrassing when using on an airline or in a crowded area.
I'm not paid to teach on here, but for the sake of filling in the apparent gap in your knowledge, the financial mess was caused by certain key factors: increased foreclosure rates, increased unemployment, unpaid debt owed to financial institutions, and other financial instability.
I'm not paid to teach on here either, but I think it's worth pointing out that you are confusing cause and effect here.
The things you mentioned above are the EFFECT, not the CAUSE, of the financial mess. The CAUSE of the mess was (and remains) artificial interest rates (aka easy money policy) set forth by the Federal Reserve, corrupt politicians (bought and paid for by the Fed's buddies at Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, etc), and flawed housing (among other) policies passed by the profligate and corrupt congress. But I digress…