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

2015 Quicken management, pre-equity buyout...
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2016 Quicken Deluxe for OS X.....
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Quicken no longer exists in my Universe.
 
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mikegem said:
Too late. Long since shifted to iBank.
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As did I, however I'm not opposed to switching back if they make it compelling. Although iBank is OK, there are a couple things about it really making my grapes sour:

1. Switching from one account to another is REALLY slow, although that might be because I have the data file stored in iCloud drive rather than on my local hard drive. Haven't experimented with that yet.

2. The way it downloads bank transactions and attempts to auto-categorize things really messes up my process - Long story, for another forum.

3. For some odd reason if I transfer an amount from one account to another, I get four copies of the transaction when I download.

Not looking to start a discussion on how to use iBank better, but my point is after I gave up on Quicken and started looking for alternatives, I have yet to find something I truly love. Maybe it's Quicken's time again. Time will tell.
 
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About bloody time. Just a week ago, I repurchased Q4M 2007 since the 2015 version I'd bought last year - and which I'd foolishly trusted would be an improvement - is so appallingly bad and buggy.
 
DotCom2 said:
Let's wait and see what they come up with and not castigate at the get go.
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Well that’s sort of the way things work on a site like MacRumors. Haters gonna hate and comment. I am actually pleased with Quicken 2016 for Mac and have finally retired Quicken 2007. I have had zero issues getting my online accounts set up, including my Morgan Stanley IRA. I am looking forward to the promised advancements in the Mac version. I have had very few issues with Quicken 2016 for Mac and it appears to be very stable on my El Capitan installation.
 
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mytdave said:
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...
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This is a good attitude to have.
People are basing their opinion on the past **** Intuit.
Let's wait and see what the *New people do with it and then we can decide.
 
nt5672 said:
Two words, "Marketing Ploy!" We switched also and have not looked back.
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Well most people have not switched it would appear. Quicken is among the top selling financial software in the Mac App Store, outselling the other and less featured apps like the ones being mentioned here.
 
Fix the Mint app! I can't even get it to run. When I click the icon and sign in, it just crashes every time. Also Mint sucks since you bought it. It never stays logged in to my accounts and I always need to "fix" things by just logging in again.
 
Went to the intuit website and it still has Quicken on there. Does not seem that the product has been separated from intuit (as far as the website is concerned).
 
MacRumors said:

Intuit announced last week that it has sold Quicken to private equity firm H.I.G. Capital,
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Folks,

This isn't about QuickBooks, TurboTax, Lacerte, etc - all of which are still owned and managed/developed (such as it is) by Intuit.

ONLY the Quicken product lines - both Mac and Windows - have been sold to HIG Capital. Intuit has been looking for a buyer for some time. A big mistake in my view, as Intuit bets on their CEO's own Mint online product and the cloud - which many of us object to for security and availability reasons.

The Quicken engineering/product management has absolutely nothing to do with QuickBooks or other Intuit products - which are still under the same Intuit teams.

We are led to believe the all/most of the Intuit staff associated with Quicken are still with Quicken at the new corporate home. That they will receive increased resources is at least hopeful, as both Quicken Windows and Quicken Mac have an insane number of issues that have been addressed too slowly.

(QuickBooks - an Intuit product - is another story for another thread about Intuit/Quickbooks vs HIG Capital/Quicken. But my 2 cents after reading the above negative comments is that I've found QuickBooks Mac 2016 is vastly superior to QuickBooks Windows in usability/fun for the things that it does... except for Payroll which sucks. QB Mac only uses online payroll and for the same price of Windows desktop payroll, it is a dim shadow in functionality and accounting integration.)
 
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Markoth said:
So, from one engineer, to two?
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My thoughts exactly. The windows product probably has an engineering team of two people, compared to 1 for Mac.

Even the windows product has seen so very little improvement, it's a joke.
 
Cuban Missles said:
Went to the intuit website and it still has Quicken on there. Does not seem that the product has been separated from intuit (as far as the website is concerned).
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The purchase was just announced, right? Quicken is embedded throughout the Intuit web space via support CMS, product info, etc and will no doubt take a little time to break off I'd think. It's not like it's one page that can just be pointed to a new domain.
 
That would be lovely. I haven't found anything that works as well and the MAC version has some SERIOUS problems. Only one example: I can't age off old transactions. Even the Windows version does that. It's frustrating!
 
This is the equivalent of Sony Music announcing they are going to bring back the cassette tape.

Adored Quicken in the 90s but was literally forced to stop using it ten years ago when it because unusable. In 2016 I don't see how it's relevant.

Personally,

1) I don't write paper checks hardly anymore.
2) I can get real-time snapshot of my portfolio along with stock quotes direct from my broker's online site or iOS app.
3) Same goes for my bank activity and credit cards.
4) All of the above provide me with a year end summary
5) Numbers is perfectly fine for setting up a budget.

Those were the reasons I used Quicken and the reason I have zero need to go back to it. Sorry Quicken, that is what happens when you go on extended vacation.
 
Made an attempt to switch to the Mac version last month. Could not get my data to convert. Posted the issue to the support community and they regurgitated everything I'd already read and tried multiple times. Decided to start from scratch on the Mac side. Two of my 10 accounts that are supported on Windows are not supported on the Mac version. OK, maybe I can deal with that. Then I started using the Mac version. Took me maybe 10 minutes to decide it was pathetic. Uninstalled and requested a refund.
 
erinsarah said:
As did I, however I'm not opposed to switching back if they make it compelling. Although iBank is OK, there are a couple things about it really making my grapes sour:

1. Switching from one account to another is REALLY slow, although that might be because I have the data file stored in iCloud drive rather than on my local hard drive. Haven't experimented with that yet.

2. The way it downloads bank transactions and attempts to auto-categorize things really messes up my process - Long story, for another forum.

3. For some odd reason if I transfer an amount from one account to another, I get four copies of the transaction when I download.

Not looking to start a discussion on how to use iBank better, but my point is after I gave up on Quicken and started looking for alternatives, I have yet to find something I truly love. Maybe it's Quicken's time again. Time will tell.
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I was happy to abandon Quicken and iBank seemed the way to go. Quicken had these quirks that chapped me when I was entering data, etc. iBank- different quirks but similar nonsense. Been such a slight improvement it was a shock.
 
reevans said:
I too have abandoned Quicken after they abandoned Macs and will never go back. I hope they boil in their own pudding.
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You hope who boils in their own pudding?
Intuit or the new company that hasn't even done anything with it yet?
 
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