Intuit is finally offering hope that there will be a version that runs on OS X Lion
Not for Lion users
Five years after it issued its last version of Quicken for Apple's (AAPL) Macintosh line -- Quicken for Mac 2007 -- Intuit (INTU) offered this belated assurance Thursday to any users who haven't already switched.
Maybe management took at face value the pundits' repeated warnings -- 56 since 1995, according to the Mac Observer's count -- that Apple's days were numbered.
UPDATE: Reader Al Mitchell points out that Quicken's Mac FAQ link in the letter below leads to a page that tells you where to buy the company's products, but offers no information about the Mac. "That's sure winning back my confidence," he writes.
Having let the Mac version languish, Intuit prepares for the death of its flagship product
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My first three entries in Quicken, dated Sept. 8, 1997, were a $17.31 payment to Bell Atlantic (remember them?) marked "Philip's modem" (remember those?) and $15 for my annual subscription to the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link in Sausalito, Calif., which for many years was my only conduit onto the Internet.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 8, 2011 12:25 PM ET
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"It is not thicker, don't believe all the junk that you read."
-- Apple Senior VP Phil Schiller supposed response to reports that the white iPhone 4 is thicker (9 to 5 Mac)
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Windows 8 may include a Ribbon-like user interface. Photo: PC World
PC manufacturers -- and apparently, some users -- have gotten their hands on early builds of Windows 8, which will include support for ARM chips and features like enhanced graphics, 3-D support, facial recognition, MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Apr 4, 2011 8:44 AM ET
The "anti-software" company joins forces with one of the biggest small-business software makers out there, striking another blow on behalf of the cloud.
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Salesforce.com's (CRM) future depends on rapid expansion of its customer relationship management business and its ability to become the platform of choice for developers of cloud-based business applications.
But the company can't do it all alone. That's why this morning Salesforce.com announced a strategic partnership with MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Apr 1, 2011 1:01 PM ET
The Mint.com founder now runs a big part of Intuit and invests in startups on the side. Here, his take on Jack Dorsey's Square and the one investment on which he's glad to take a pass.
If you're not one of the 5.6 million active users on Mint.com, we suggest you give it a long, hard look, because even the most business savvy can benefit from its services, whether it's saving MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Apr 1, 2011 11:12 AM ET
Jack Dorsey has a bold idea: make accepting a credit card as easy as sending a tweet.
Until recently Jack Dorsey was best known in the business world as the creator and chairman of Twitter, which has transformed the way millions of people communicate and get information. These days, though, Dorsey, 34, has been garnering bigtime buzz for his latest venture, Square, a service that aims to upend the banking industry MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Jan 31, 2011 5:00 AM ET
To one professional Google watcher, the Google ITA deal draws lots of parallels to the attempt by Microsoft to buy personal finance software company Intuit in 1995. And it should be dealt with the same way: blocked.
Scott Cleland writes in his Precursor blog some interesting parallels between Google (GOOG) and Microsoft (MSFT) and their attempts to enter and dominate new markets by acquisition.
Microsoft in 1995 attempted to buy Intuit which makes the popular MORE
Seth Weintraub - Jan 20, 2011 3:15 PM ET
Intuit's GoPayment is going freemium to battle Jack Dorsey's Square, but is the mobile payment pie worth fighting over?
The Intuit GoPayment reader
Intuit, best known for its Quicken, QuickBooks and TurboTax accounting software, is making a big push into the burgeoning mobile payments business with the launch today of a free version of its nearly two-year-old GoPayment service.
GoPayment, designed for small businesses that don't yet accept credit cards — think MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Jan 9, 2011 10:00 PM ET
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| Company | Price | Change | % Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bank of America Corp... | 7.95 | -0.16 | -1.97% |
| Intel Corp | 26.73 | -0.43 | -1.58% |
| Microsoft Corp | 31.27 | -0.17 | -0.54% |
| Ford Motor Co | 12.28 | -0.25 | -2.00% |
| General Electric Co | 19.39 | 0.17 | 0.88% |
| Index | Last | Change | % Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dow | 12,938.67 | -27.02 | -0.21% |
| Nasdaq | 2,933.17 | -15.40 | -0.52% |
| S&P 500 | 1,357.66 | -4.55 | -0.33% |
| Treasuries | 2.00 | -0.04 | -1.96% |
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