Quicken to Double Mac Engineering Team to Finally Improve OS X Version

[yaxomoxay]

"Dunn is confident that the software "will thrive with increased investment" and "become great again" under the new investment group's leadership."
Sounds almost presidential, if you go for that sort of thing.

They are reaping funds by selling "Make Quicken Great Again" baseball hats.

 

[RogueWarrior65]

Still using Quicken 2007. I've been using Quicken for 20 years. It's quite enlightening to be able to see how much of your money going to things like health insurance has risen asymptotically over the past few years. But I digress...

Wake me when they port the full version of Quickbooks Manufacturing Edition.

 

[AbSoluTc]

As an IT person that supports Accounting firms, how about you FIX quickbooks on Windows first, hell - just in general - FIX it. Then work on your other stuff. Oh, you're too busy selling loans and buying up companies.

 

[turtle67]

Way too little and way too late. Quicken dropped all of its loyal Mac users years ago when they refused to release a version that ran native on the Intel processor. I looked long and hard to find an alternative and found iBank (now called Banktivity). I took me a while, but I now find iBank/Banktivity to be a much better product than Quicken ever was. I would NEVER, EVER go back to Quicken after having been dumped unceremoniously like they did. Once bitten, twice shy.

PS. The name change from iBank to Banktivity is not a good move, IMO. Surely there is a better name than Banktivity...

 

[KPOM]

How about making QuickBooks for Mac have the same feature set as the Windows version.
Why they are different after all this time completely eludes me.

Exactly. TurboTax has feature parity and the files are exactly the same. For that matter, if you buy the CD you get both versions. Quicken for Mac should file and feature identical to the Windows version.

 

[obafgkm]

Way too little and way too late. Quicken dropped all of its loyal Mac users years ago when they refused to release a version that ran native on the Intel processor...

Speak for yourself. I consider myself a loyal Mac user, and I still use Quicken (2007, the "new" Intel version). Having said that, I would love to see a Quicken that has all the bells and whistles that I understand the Windows version has.

But, on the other hand, the features I have currently are enough for me.

 

[GoodWheaties]

How about making QuickBooks for Mac have the same feature set as the Windows version.
Why they are different after all this time completely eludes me.

Yep my father in law switched back to the Windows version (via VMFusion) because he got tired of working with the Mac version.

 

[Westside guy]

Time has passed Quicken by... taxact.com for the win.

The only thing keeping people using stuff like Quicken is inertia.

 

[Le Big Mac]

I'll believe it when I see it... I'm *still* using Quicken 2007.

+1. It's now 10 years since they released the "best" version of Quicken for Mac. Since then, hollow promises of renewed efforts, yet they are yet to produce one. Why should we think this time will be different? Great if it is, but not jumping back into any vaporware.

 

[jonnysods]

Intuit need to fix Quickbooks 2016 for Mac. I can't even change the dates on invoices or expenses, it just locks in to the current day I'm using it. That's a huge problem and they haven't solved it!

 

[bladerunner2000]

"Dunn is confident that the software "will thrive with increased investment" and "become great again" under the new investment group's leadership."
Sounds almost presidential, if you go for that sort of thing.

Confidence is a byproduct of predictability.

Seeing how everything Quicken has done for Mac has been total crap... how in the world can you be confident about the future?

 

[Kar98]

So, from one engineer, to two?

They're gonna hire an intern.

 

[navaira]

"Quicken to Double Mac Engineering Team to Finally Improve OS X Version"

I COMPLETELY misread that (long day at work) as

"Mac Engineering Team Doubles to Finally Improve OS X, Quicker".

 

[Rigby]

FYI, the product manager for the new Mac Quicken posted some information elsewhere in the forum:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/quicken-for-mac-alternative.1860249/page-6#post-22642838

 

[naeS1Sean]

"Make Americ...I mean, make Quicken great again."

2:06

 

[nightcap965]

Used to use Quicken 2007, but Mint and a Numbers spreadsheet seem to handle all of my needs now. Still, I'm interested in seeing what the new, revitalized Quicken comes up with.

 

[samcraig]

Tim Cook has made this a priority item because he needs better software to balance the books at Apple. Especially because of the EU Tax Probe: https://www.macrumors.com/2016/03/07/apple-eu-tax-probe-dont-hold-your-breath/

/S

 

[RetiredTaxman]

I ditched it because they wouldn't sell to UK residents.

 

[JeffyTheQuik]

Doubling Engineering...

...so it will go from 0 stars to 0?

I just use Banktivity (nee iBank)

Maybe Microsoft can do the same with Office, so Office 2016 isn't the same (except look and feel) as Office Windows 2007.

 

[Don Summers]

Too late. Long since shifted to iBank.

So did I - much better than post-2007 Quicken for Mac. Won't go back.

 

[iKnowMr.Jobs]

So, from one engineer, to two?

Two turkeys don't make an eagle😉

 

[CasinoOwl]

The only thing would make me consider trying an updated version of Quicken is because Intuit has nothing to do with it. I switched to Banktivity (iBank) a few years back, and it's far from perfect but it gets the job done. Quicken for Mac had better be very impressive to win people back.

 

[mytdave]

That's great news! I'll keep an eye on this... If they actually improve it and bring it up to par, then I will actually buy it. I've been waiting for Intuit for years, and they never delivered, so I never opened my wallet, so we'll see...

 

[ignatius345]

Been meaning to try iBank for a while... but "Banktivity" has to be one of the lamest names I've ever heard.

 

[Blatboy]

So funny. I came to MacRumors right now because I needed something to read while Quicken (on XP via Fusion) moves. so. slow.

One of the reasons I'm holding out for the new macbook pro is to have something that may make quicken run faster (via fusion). Never been able to get with the mac versions, even the new one. Tried to get my wife to use it (and therefore allow me to check it out and see if I like it) but it just didn't work the same... too big of a change.

Basically run Windows just to run Quicken. Pretty backwards.

I'm with other folks posting here... I don't want any of my financial stuff stored on the cloud... so quickbooks online is totally out of the question for me... blah blah blah. I'll shuddap now.