Quicken for Mac 2007 being rebuilt to work with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
A note from Aaron Forth, general manager of the Intuit Personal Finance Group, was sent out to customers Thursday, acknowledging that the company has "not always delivered" on its promise to deliver the best products to Mac customers. In particular, he was addressing the fact that Quicken for Mac 2007 does not have compatibility with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.
"I understand the frustration this may have caused you and have put a team in place to address this issue," Forth wrote. "I am happy to announce that we will have a solution that makes Quicken 2007 for Mac 'Lion-compatible' by early spring."
Details on the forthcoming release are available on Intuit's support website with a newly published list of questions and answers. There users can request to be notified when more information becomes available.
Forth told customers that the Quicken for Mac 2007 solution is "just a first step" in winning back the confidence of customers. Intuit is also expanding its development team to better support Mac users.
"I understand we have a way to go, but I wanted to start by communicating our commitment to Mac and look forward to sharing the details with you as they emerge," he said.
Intuit last overhauled Quicken for Mac with Quicken Essentials, released in early 2010. But its latest efforts aim to support legacy customers, who have been locked out from Quicken for Mac 2007 since Apple launched Lion in July.
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Didn't they make a 2012? Why didn't they just make that one work instead of what sounds like a repackaging of the exact same stuff from four years ago?
Because Intuit discontinued development of Quicken for Mac.
Those programmers are working on other things (Quicken Essentials, QuickBooks, TurboTax, Mint.com, whatever). They can't really call it Quicken 2012 if it has zero new features.
The work that Intuit is doing is to incorporate the Rosetta technology to get this old Carbon PPC code to run on Lion, something that Apple had deprecated. Oh, and by the way, the code for Quicken 2007 is actually five years old, not four. It came out in 2006.
It's not like Intuit forgot about this product, they deliberately end of lifed it. At the time, they already knew that Carbon was being replaced by Cocoa and that the transition from PPC to Intel architecture would mean the PPC support would eventually end. Hence, they decided to rewrite the application from scratch, to be called Quicken Essentials. Sadly, it looks like Intuit did not put in enough resources and started with the rewrite way too late. It was released a year or two behind schedule and in a half-baked state where much key functionality was missing.
Because Intuit discontinued development of Quicken for Mac.
Those programmers are working on other things (Quicken Essentials, QuickBooks, TurboTax, Mint.com, whatever). They can't really call it Quicken 2012 if it has zero new features.
Just my guess that Rosetta is involved somehow. Maybe Apple licensed it to Intuit for just this one time?
Because Intuit discontinued development of Quicken for Mac.
I see. Shame, really.
Too bad Intuit, I've moved on.
Your lack of continuing Mac support is a terrible reflection on Intuit.
As far as I'm concerned you may as well forget the Mac forever, I have better alternatives now.