Intuit Announces QuickBooks 2010 for Mac

[MickG]

QuickBooks for PC or Mac 2000 whatever...

Why is it so hard for Intuit to make their data files platform independent?

I would like to be able to use either QB for Windows or QB for Mac to open and work with the same file.

I'm an avid Mac user but the Mac versions of QB are so bad that I finally broke down and bought a PC just for Quickbooks.

We're an Apple Certified Service and we do more VMware/XP installations for people wanting to use INTUIT's products for PC, than any other. I hear about the sloppy code and such, but it still seems to be a more robust and feature-rich piece of software than the ugly Apple stepsister.

Does anyone know what is stopping a startup company from kicking out some brilliant program that would export and import all Intuit files? Is Intuit blocking this? Probably.

Isn't someone from Intuit on Apple's Board? Of all the things that Stevo could be annoyed about, why can't we get him annoyed about how awful this software is?... He's such a great consumer advocate when it comes to noting how "everyone hated their cell phones." Now we have the iPhone. A cell phone that decidedly doesn't suck.

I just keep a hoping and a prayin that something like iBank, or Apple, or someone will create something that will have massive Mac market migration. I feel like we've given Intuit plenty of time to write something good and they just don't seem to care.

Grr....

 

[jklara]

Don't buy it-- Intuit is unworthy

Had Quickbook for mac 2009 since January. Twice now my company info has disappeared. I can see the accounts but they are only showing the opening balance and nothing else. Intuit wants to charge me to figure out where the info went. LOL. Nice lady from India was eager enough--all I had to do was give her my credit card info. I have a backup disk (of course) but won't restore from there. Keeps saying it is from a version prior to 2004, which of course it is not. Why-you ask? Because I couldn't transfer any of that info--had to dump it when I switched to the newer version. And.... even when it was working, couldn't share my info on my desktop with my laptop. DON'T BUY THIS GARBAGE!!! Can anyone recommend a better accounting program? This one bites!!

 

[havette]

Quickbooks version

we work with Quickbooks a lot. I think the best thing ever is the quickbooks online. If you use the onsite version, be very carefull as the password can be cracked in a few minutes.
The best place I found to buy it for our clients until now is quickbooks 2010

 

[nickweston]

QB Upgrade? Not for me.

I have given Intuit my last $$.

We Mac users BUILT this company in the 80's, and they all but abandoned us in the mid-90's.

1. Their support SUCKS, plain and simple. $$$$$$$$

2. The feature list is hobbled compared to the Windows version.

3. Upgrade? Why would they call it an upgrade when you need to BUY THE WHOLE PROGRAM AGAIN!

I've been forced to use this **** software because my accountants use it. Got into Mint, hoping that would develop into something, and who buys it, INTUIT!!! And guess who owns Intuit? Mikrosoft. Gee...

Apple, please develop an accounting program!

P.S. my accountants have forbade me from using the online version, it is watered down.

BLEH

 

[DeepIn2U]

It's also about Intuit. A piss poor company with a shoddy record in the Mac world. Intuit can go pound sand.

Seems that the major consensus here is that Intuit has NOT been supporting the Mac platform too well; and with a few more million Mac users - expanding exponentially ever year in growth (total Mac sales, not the PowerMac) its odd why they would leave out the features users need??

Is there NOT still an Intuit CEO on the Apple Board? If so then what the HELL is he doing with managing this software? He'd have inside knowledge of the growth in the Mac userbase and it would only make more financial sense to boost features like others mentioned above.

Is there an alternative that the other Mac-heads posted above?

 

[bigwig]

I'm seriously looking at Xero.com as a replacement for Quickbooks. They're based in NZ, but their servers are in the US. Mint.com is underfeatured for business, none of the online invoicing apps do balance sheets, Oracle's online offering is insanely expensive (used to be reasonable before they decided to abandon small business). Before you ask, I don't work for Xero.

 

[ravenvii]

All you need to know about this piece of **** company (from the Intuit wiki):

Intuit has generated controversy with some of its business practice decisions. Cases of criticism from users and reviewers include the company's phasing-out of support for the ubiquitous QIF format in favor of the QFX format. These formats are used for downloading information from financial institutions such as banks and brokerages. While use of QIF was free, banks are required to pay a licensing fee to Intuit if they wish to allow their customers the ability to download financial data in the QFX format.[23]

In 2007, Intuit lobbied to make sure taxpayers cannot file their tax returns directly to the IRS by negotiating a deal that has the IRS promising not to set up its own Web portal for e-filing.[24]

In 2009, the Los Angeles Times reported that Intuit spent nearly $2 million in political contributions to eliminate free online state tax filing for low income residences in California.[25]