Words cannot express how much Intuit sucks.
After years of giving us BS updates with barely any new features and basically making us pay for a bug patch, Intuit stopped support for the Mac in all effectiveness. (Quicken 2007 has a copyright date of 2006.)
Then we get this Quicken Life, because Mac users don't have financial planning and tracking needs. (to say nothing that the average Mac user has higher income and network than the average PC user and spends more on software.)
That "product" has a disastrous beta. Customers were beyond angry--they were quitting Intuit. Unfortunately for Intuit, the Mac platform has a great and free alternative to their shoddy product--online banking tools from your local bank and companies like Mint.
To their credit, Intuit acknowledged they screwed-up and totally mis-read the changes in the market, and so we are getting Quicken 2010, which reportedly is some form of Quicken Lite. That is certainly better than the train wreck that was Quicken Life, but given how short of a development and testing timeframe they have, heaven knows how good it will be.
I understand why people wrote off the Mac platform around 2000/2001. But there has been seismic shifts in the PC industry due to Vista, MS, Open Source, iPod, and Apple executing a quality initiative.
I hope Quicken 2010 is a solid product and not some idiiotic cover flow app that doesn't track investments. (this is what Intuit wanted to ship. It must have every feature in Quicken 2007 and be refreshed from a code base and UI perspective.)
And I hope the execs at Intuit see "where the puck is going"--and not where it was in 2000-- and ships Quick 2011 that is on par with Quicken for the PC. If it makes sense for Adobe and Microsoft to follow this strategy--hardly Apple fanboi companies--maybe it makes business sense for Intuit.
Quicken 2007 is the only software I have that will require the Rosetta install when I upgrade to Snow Leopard.
