“It is well known that the Mac version of Quicken has long trailed behind the Windows version. Why this should be so is anyone’s guess. The price of Quicken 2015 for Mac is $74.99, same as Quicken Deluxe for Windows, a mid-priced version. On the basis of price alone, customers have a right to expect comparable products,” Gene Steinberg writes for The Tech Night Owl. “But that’s not quite how Quicken works.” “Indeed, the latest version of the app actually dispenses with features that existed in previous Mac versions. You can no longer create a 12-month budget, show loan amortization, or pay bills from the app,” Steinberg writes. 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.” “To add insult to injury, Quicken board chairman Bill Campbell served as a member of Apple’s board of directors for 17 years.
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He announced his resignation recently, and interviews have touted his wonderful relationship with the company and the late Steve Jobs. 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. “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. 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?” 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.” Read more in the full article – highly recommended –. MacDailyNews Take: Hear, hear! As: The fact is that Intuit long ago wrote off the Mac. They expected the Mac to die.
Yesterday, after a number of reminders that Quicken Essentials for Mac was no longer supported, and I could not pass up $40 off, I down loaded Quicken 2016 fro Mac, from Intuit. The install went fast.
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. Such smart leadership they have at Intuit. As with Adobe, we’ll never forget how you wrote off the Mac for dead, Intuit. Related articles: – August 21, 2014 – July 17, 2014 – December 22, 2011 – August 1, 2006 – July 29, 2014 – July 24, 2014 – October 23, 2012 – February 1, 2010 – July 23, 2009. NPD study: “66% of Apple computer households have three or more computers.
For Windows households, only 29% have three or more computers. Apple owners are more likely to have a notebook — 72% of Mac households have a notebook, while only 50% of PC households go portable. The average Apple household has 48 consumer electronics devices, while the average computer household has about 24. While Apple owners tend to own more computers and more electronics devices, there is also a high correlation among Apple owners and more affluent consumer households,” said Stephen Baker, vice president of industry analysis.
“Thirty-six percent of Apple computer owners reported household incomes greater than $100,000, compared to 21 percent of all consumers.” The study is from 2008, it’s probably MORE true today as 50% of mac buyers are new consumers, most affluent PC users who go can upgrade have moved to Mac (like moving from a leaking Yugo to a BMW, or perhaps more accurately from a a DISEASE and CRIME RIDDEN SLUM to a high end neighbourhood with full service and security). You want me to cut and paste also the study that shows Mac users are SMARTER as well? (study that shoes larger percentage of mac users have higher education, IQ. ) ? eat you heart out. Count your blessings that you and I will never be in the same room as I would tear you a new one. You are a pompous ass typical of the American mindset.
You guys are all a piece of work! Studies the likes of the one you reference are FUD and often times paid for as means to drive the results. BTW ahole, I probably own more Apple tech than most of you on here, but I NEVER proclaim that my doing so makes me better than someone less fortunate than me.
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You are the poster boy for what is wrong with this world! I’m a “pompous ass ” for quoting a third party ‘study’?
Looks like I got a nerve hey? Hey MORE studies: this time from Nielsen (you know the ratings company. I guess you’ll say Nielsen is all FUD too Nielsen: “TS Kelly, director and principal analyst at NetRatings, said that his company decided to publish the study after noticing the differences between the demographics of Mac owners compared with overall PC owners. Nielsen/NetRatings said that 70.2 percent of Mac users online have a college degree, compared with 54.2 percent of all Web surfers.” SUCK GAS dude.
Point is: there are few aftermarket accessories for BMWs than there are for higher volume cars. And it will always remain so, because no matter how rich and smart Mac users are, Apple isn’t doing much to attract more developers to the Mac. Until sheer numbers of Mac users becomes significant, software developers will always prioritize Windows. There is no sense i arguing that point with your cherry-picked data. Even developers who do write code for the Mac dumb it down, as this article shows, because they don’t think Mac users will be profitable enough to make it worth their time.
What’s most inferiating for me is that Apple acts the EXACT SAME WAY. Minimal effort made for Mac software while iOS gets all the attention. Mac has small market share, iOS has big market share. Just look at the updates, quality, and new technology and see that Apple isn’t supporting the Mac as well as they could either.
The REALITY is that there are 1.4 billion Windows based personal computers in existence. The VAST MAJORITY of them are in businesses. Virtually 100% of those in use by businesses are NEVER going to have any.PERSONAL. financial software installed on them.
You quote 6% for Mac market share. The REALITY is that this is the month by month or quarter by quarter SALES share. AND, it is the sales share for worldwide sales. The percentage of US sales is about double that. The real number you should be quoting, but won’t because you don’t care about REALITY, is the installed base share. Study after study after study has shown that Mac users keep their computers longer than Windows based computer users do (even when you disregard business users). Therefore the installed base of personal Windows computers is not anywhere near as disproportional as you try to make it seem.
Before, and during, the so called Apple “Dark Days” Quicken for Mac.was. roughly equivalent to the Windows version. And guess what? The Mac market share (sales share) was not much more than it is now. It wasn’t until the late 1990s that Intuit decided that they were not going to keep the two versions equivalent.
Hell, let’s look at another product by Intuit: QuickBooks. In the 90s, QuickBooks for Mac was a very serviceable product for small businesses. But in the early 200s (long, long after Apple started making its resurgence and the Mac market share started to come back) Intuit decided to completely lobotomize QuickBooks for Mac. Ah yes, it makes perfect sense to lobotomize — and effectively kill future sales of, a product for a computer whose installed base is only increasing! Only Intuit would think of, and implement, such an idiotic concept. The reality is that Intuit for the last 15 years (and even more so in the last 10 years) has decided to treat the Mac platform and support for Mac users as a necessary evil — one for which they will do the ABSOLUTE MINIMUM that they can do. The Mac community would be better off without either Quicken or QuickBooks.
Hey this is fun, I’m on a roll! Study that shows mac users have higher IQ Dutch Daily News: “Mac users are smarter than Windows users, according to a recent study. The study was conducted by Intelligent Elite: they asked two million Internet users to perform an online IQ survey. The study revealed some remarkable differences.
Mac users scored an average of six IQ points higher than Windows users.” another study that shows iPhone users have the quickest wits: “a data set of 1,000 respondees, whose time answering a series of questions (including problem solving, pattern recognition conundrums, Phone users were found to have the quickest wits — with an average completion time of 94 seconds — while BlackBerry users were the slowest at 118 seconds. Samsung owners, meanwhile, clocked in at an average of 103 seconds”. Congratulations, you are on a roll. But you are totally missing the point too.
Total population of installed user base, not annual sales or intelligence of users, and not affluence of users, is by far the biggest factor that determines what new software will be created on what platform, as well as the support and features that will be supported. Like it or not, the Mac is being margnialized because all those smart affluent rich Mac users aren’t buying enough Mac software. If you had the proof to show otherwise, then you need to give it to Intuit and about a thousand other software developers whose software for the Mac is just an afterthought to keep them busy between Windows releases.