For any Mac users who are still using Quicken ...

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.

Posted in: Apple, Intuit, Mac OS X Lion, Macintosh, PCs, Quicken

• Shaw Wu: Apple could double or triple its market shares

  Sterne Agee's Apple analyst sees lots of room for growth in PCs and mobile phones

  In a note to clients issued Wednesday, Sterne Agee's Shaw Wu makes the case that Apple's (AAPL) shares, still down 8% from their recent highs, are a "compelling" buy. He offers four reasons:

  "As much success as AAPL has had," he writes, "the company has only 4%-5% share in mobile phones and 4%-5% in PCs (12%-13% including MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 10, 2011 7:56 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Greater China, iCloud, iOS, iPhone, Mac mini, Mac OS X Lion, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Mobile, PCs, Shaw Wu, Sterne Agee

• MacBook Air review: Finally a buy!

  When Apple released the latest version of its featherweight notebook last week, it killed the MacBook line and positioned the 11-inch Air as the "ultimate everyday notebook." But can it really be your one-and-only? 

  Billed as the "world's thinnest laptop" when it launched three years ago, Apple's (AAPL) MacBook Air always struck me as a notebook that was easy on the eyes but lacked muscle.

  I enjoyed the svelte look and featherweight MORE

  JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jul 27, 2011 12:24 PM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Intel Core 2, iPad, iPhone, Mac OS X Lion, MacBook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Macintosh

• One million Lions. Fake Apple Stores. That Hulu deal.

  And other stories we missed while we were busy chasing down Apple analysts

  It was an unusually busy week for Apple (AAPL), which released two new computers and a major overhaul of its flagship operating system the day after it reported earning that have more than doubled in a year. We covered the earnings and the subsequent pop in the stock price. Here are some of the stories we missed:

  A pride MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 22, 2011 10:57 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Ars Technica, China, Daring Fireball, Fake Apple Store, John Gruber, Mac OS, Mac OS X Lion, Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Philip Schiller, Snow Leopard

• Attention users of Quicken for Mac who are switching to Lion

  Don't buy Apple's new operating system until you find a new home for your financial data

  Apple doesn't tell you this, so we will.

  With OS X Lion, the new operating system for Macs released Wednesday, Apple (AAPL) has just cut a significant tie to its past -- namely legacy programs like Intuit's (INTU) Quicken that were written for the old PowerPC.

  As John Siracusa points out in his definitive and thoroughly entertaining MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 20, 2011 11:34 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, ArsTechnica, John Siracusa, Mac OS, Mac OS X Lion, PowerPC, Quicken, Rosetta, Snow Leopard

• Apple's WWDC 2011 developer sessions now available online

  Free for those who couldn't make it to San Francisco or didn't sign up before they sold out

  The 5,200 developers who rushed to register before the $1,599 tickets sold out, flew to San Francisco to be there in person, and stood in lines that snaked around three city blocks say that the conversations that took place in the hallways between sessions were half the reason to attend the Apple (AAPL) MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 24, 2011 11:44 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, iOS, iOS 5, iPad, iPhone, Mac OS X, Mac OS X Lion, Macs, PCs, San Francisco, Tablets, WWDC

• Apple's 5.7% drop last week was par for the course

  Average post WWDC loss: 5.4%. Average gain from the previous year: 56.8%

  There was the usual gnashing of teeth on the Apple (AAPL) investor boards when the company's share price dropped $6.18 ($1.8%) Monday, the day of Steve Jobs' iCloud keynote.

  Adding insult to injury, the stock continued to fall three out of the next four days. It closed Friday at $325.90, its lowest price since Dec. 2010, down 5.7% for the MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 11, 2011 12:40 PM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, Financials, iCloud, Mac OS X Lion, Macintosh, Steve Jobs, WWDC

• Apple's week of information overload

  Three major products, hundreds of new features, thousands of new programmer interfaces

  "We're going to talk about three things today," Steve Jobs said at the beginning his keynote speech Monday. Then he and his colleagues proceeded to talk about hundreds of things -- so many that days later the reporters who watched the two-hour presentation and the developers who attended the week-long conference that followed were still trying to wrap their MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 10, 2011 5:30 AM ET
  Posted in: API, Apple, Application programming interface, iOS, iPhone, Mac OS, Mac OS X Lion, Steve Jobs, Steve Levy, Wired, Worldwide Developers Conference, WWDC, WWDC 11

• Live from San Francisco: Steve Jobs unveils the iCloud

  Apple cuts the cord that connected its mobile devices to Macs and PCs

  12:00 p.m. PDT (3 p.m EDT) Jobs thanks the crowd for coming and hopes they have a great week.

  In summary, Apple on Monday introduced three major new products: iCloud, iOS 5 and Mac OS X Lion.

  The most important was the one Steve Jobs chose to personally unveil: iCloud, a service that automatically uploads files you create on one MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 6, 2011 10:09 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, iCloud, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iTunes, Mac OS X Lion, Mobile, Moscone West, PCs, Steve Jobs, Tablets

• The coming iCloud: Apple experts predict what's about to debut at the WWDC

  Apple's pre-announcements -- of Mac OS X Lion, iOS 5 and iCloud -- have only made things worse

  I've never see the Apple (AAPL) cognoscenti quite so confused. They're all in town for the Worldwide Developers Conference that opens Monday at San Francisco's Moscone West -- the first one since 2007 that doesn't feature a new iPhone. And without that shiny piece of hardware to anchor their thoughts, they seem to MORE

  Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 6, 2011 3:29 AM ET
  Posted in: Apple, Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, iPhone, iTunes, John Gruber, Kevin Fox, Leander Kahney, Mac OS X Lion, MobileMe, Steve Jobs, WWDC