Then the geniuses at Intuit, makers of money management software, realized (years after it was blatantly obvious to pretty much everyone else with a brain) that the people with money to manage basically all have Macs. The fact is that Intuit long ago wrote off the Mac. Read more in the full article – highly recommended – here. Steinberg writes, “Were I to buy a personal financial app, I would first look at other options, from publishers who care about the Mac platform, before I gave Quicken another go.” How could the man continue to serve on Apple’s board yet allow the company for which he’s chairman treat Mac users in this way?” “I also wonder, in reading those fawning interviews with Campbell, why he isn’t being asked why Mac users must accept second best if they choose a Quicken product. All well and good, but I do wonder whether Jobs or Cook ever asked Campbell why the Mac versions of Quicken’s software almost always trailed the Windows venisons in features… even in situations where they cost exactly the same,” Steinberg writes. He announced his resignation recently, and interviews have touted his wonderful relationship with the company and the late Steve Jobs. “To add insult to injury, Quicken board chairman Bill Campbell served as a member of Apple’s board of directors for 17 years.
“But why? In addition, such features as multi-currency conversion that are found in the Windows versions of the app have never made it to the Mac platform.” You can no longer create a 12-month budget, show loan amortization, or pay bills from the app,” Steinberg writes. “Indeed, the latest version of the app actually dispenses with features that existed in previous Mac versions.
“But that’s not quite how Quicken works.” On the basis of price alone, customers have a right to expect comparable products,” Gene Steinberg writes for The Tech Night Owl. The price of Quicken 2015 for Mac is $74.99, same as Quicken Deluxe for Windows, a mid-priced version. “It is well known that the Mac version of Quicken has long trailed behind the Windows version.
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