Got a tip for us? Share it...
• • RSS

Quicken Financial Life for Mac Delayed to 2010

Friday July 10, 2009 7:58 am PDT by Eric Slivka
In a blog posting, Intuit reports that the much-delayed Quicken Financial Life for Mac, initially slated for release in 2008, will now be released in February 2010.

We know you've heard this before. In early 2008, we told you we'd release Quicken Financial Life for Mac later that year. 2008 came and went and we did not. At Macworld 2009, we told you it would be later this year.

But after speaking to customers at Macworld 2009, and opening our public beta of Quicken Financial Life for Mac to thousands of you, we learned the product was not doing what we nor customers wanted it to do.

We listened, and we learned.

As a result of the feedback from Mac customers, Intuit redesigned Quicken Financial Life from the ground up to add additional features and create a more "Mac-like" feel for the application. Pre-orders will be taken at Quicken.com beginning October 12th, 2009.
[ 91 comments ]

Top Rated Comments

(View all)

Avatar
iPhoneNYC
34 months ago
Oh, what ever happened to the good 'ole days of MacMoney???
Rating: 0 Positives / 0 Negatives
Avatar
tweaks
34 months ago
why in the hell would anybody preorder this?
Rating: 0 Positives / 0 Negatives
Avatar
aardwolf
34 months ago
I think they are delaying it because Quicken 2007 works almost perfectly in Snow Leopard (once you install Rosetta). Still, Intuit should be ashamed that 2007 of anything is the latest version... especially later this year when we're going into 2010.
Rating: 0 Positives / 0 Negatives
Avatar
Nugget
34 months ago
I'm actually pleased to hear this. The screenshots and beta were comically terrible and it's encouraging to hear that Intuit now realize this as well. Here's hoping that they can manage to build a good application between now and Early 2010.
Rating: 0 Positives / 0 Negatives
Avatar
aardwolf
34 months ago
I'm finally tired of running 2007 in Rosetta... I'm going to start keeping a VM with XP running so I can use the 2009 Windows version.
Rating: 0 Positives / 0 Negatives
Avatar
Djehuti
34 months ago
I'm pretty much done using Intuit products for good; this just seals the deal. Mint.com is free.
Rating: 0 Positives / 0 Negatives
Avatar
bdj21ya
34 months ago
When I called them in 2007, they seemed to be completely unaware that their software didn't run natively on new macs.

It's not surprising that it's taking them this long--apparently no one let them in on the "big secret" that macs were going/had gone Intel.

Since I knew that, at least at the time, some math heavy programs got bad calculations through Rosetta, I wasn't about to risk buying their PowerPC version.

Coming out with their first Intel version almost 5 years after the MacIntel announcement is ludicrous. I hope people will find alternatives rather than upgrading to this new version.
Rating: 0 Positives / 0 Negatives
Avatar
sjjordan
34 months ago
What a complete waste! I've been using Moneywell for a few months and love it! Can't wait for the Moneywell iPhone version to come out!
Rating: 0 Positives / 0 Negatives
Avatar
mrtune
34 months ago
Garbage! I was actually looking forward to this. Sadly, I will still continue to use quicken through bootcamp. After 10 years of use, it's hard to justify switching to something else.
Rating: 0 Positives / 0 Negatives
Avatar
kingtj
34 months ago
I'm not so sure I want to put all my financial info out on Mint.com's servers.
They're eventually going to become a target for some smart hacker, who will wind up downloading a copy of everyone's bank info.

Sure, it can happen already with everyone's bank and credit card offering online billpay, etc. -- but at least all your info isn't consolidated in one place.

I've been looking at that iBank software though. Seems like it offers, today, much of what Intuit keeps promising for next year.


I'm pretty much done using Intuit products for good; this just seals the deal. Mint.com is free.

Rating: 0 Positives / 0 Negatives

[ Read All Comments ]