[email protected] writes:
...
>"The Quicken team is committed to delivering the best possible
>products, service and security to our customers.
But, of course they would say that! However . . . That's the biggest
crock I've heard for a long time! We are Mac-only at work. The boss
tried MYOB but preferred QuickBooks. He used it for only invoices and
purchase orders. Since I started last spring, I've utilized many features
of which he was totally unaware, many of which have become very important
(and can be exported to import into our soon-to-be FileMaker accounting
program).
With two of us using it, a multi-user version is needed. However, Intuit
does not have one for Mac, only for the other side. He has called them
monthly asking when they were going to have one. Last month, they told
him the president has decided Mac users are not a market for them since
they constitute only 3 percent of the computer market (their numbers, not
ours). It was after that I mentioned this to a friend at our monthly
digital video special interest group meeting, and he suggested considering
a FileMaker accounting system as he knew we used FileMaker quite
extensively. I spoke with my oldest son who is a consultant (Apple
Certified Tech) as well as being an instructor who said that was a good
idea.
My son used Quicken which I've never liked because it is just too easy to
delete things. I guess because I have a "real" accounting background,
it's important to have a trail when changes are made, and these programs
just don't have them. My first system was in 1984 and was a real one that
could be customized (Open Systems, expensive but top quality and excellent
support); that was on a CPM system. Things can be locked out in FileMaker
so once an entry is made, it cannot be changed so that is desirable.
With Intuit's attitude toward Mac users, my dislike of the company has not
been lessened, nor has the disrespect for them. It seems like many
software companies forget that Mac users are incredibly loyal. Oh, well.
Glenna
who converted to Mac in 2000
"Glenna Rose" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> [email protected] writes:
> ...
>
> With Intuit's attitude toward Mac users, my dislike of the company has not
> been lessened, nor has the disrespect for them. It seems like many
> software companies forget that Mac users are incredibly loyal. Oh, well.
>
Software companies assess the market potential for a product and make their
decisions based on that. It costs a great deal of money to develop and to
maintain software, so if the market potential is not there for a given
platform, it makes no sense to invest in it since the returns will not match
the initial and the ongoing investments. Yes, Mac users are loyal, but are
they a profitable target for a lot of software companies? No they aren't,
or you'd see more packages ported to the Mac OS.
--
-Mike-
[email protected]
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 23:12:22 -0800, [email protected] (Glenna Rose) wrote:
>[email protected] writes:
>...
>>"The Quicken team is committed to delivering the best possible
>>products, service and security to our customers.
>
For those who are more interested in the Quicken sunset issue (I use
Quicken to keep track of my spending and thus provide the resources for
tools - OBWW), check out the following:
<http://www.gripe2ed.com/scoop/story/2005/1/18/03027/1506> This also has
some opinions expressed by various readers of Ed Foster's Gripeline column.
Looks like gnucash (www.gnucash.org) is an alternative for unix flavor
users, MoneyDance www.moneydance.com runs on a Mac, Linux, and Windows,
and of course, if you want to choose the devil you don't know for the one
you do, there's always Microsoft Money.
I had switched to Quicken after the product I was using was completely
"sunsetted (more like taken out back and shot)" by the publisher. It
started out as Kiplinger's Simply Money, then got bought out by CA
(Computer disAssociates), and killed a year or two later. The only problem
with such transitions is that they can be painful. At the time, I had no
choice, Simply Money simply wouldn't run on Windows 98 when I upgraded
computers.
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