[StefN]

Apple should take on the banks and Quicken both. The banks have forever been outmoded and unhelpful, moreseo even than the music guys. And Quicken has stiffed Mac-side users for the last decade.
As a client/web software approach, the iTunes Store is more than halfway home. An Apple Money client, to replace Quicken, along with all the services that Apple can build in related to financesa??banking, investing, ebillings, etc.a??can move seamlessly from iMac to iPod to iPhone.
Considerations:
* Apple wants to sell electronsa??music, video, software. Today money is digital, more than music or video.
* Apple does best when it can run a content stream through its hardware: Music, music, software. Money may be the ultimate content stream. It's certainly the ultimate revenue stream.
It's the next big thing for Apple, which needs gigantic solution-level things to do, now that ita??s one of the big dogs. If anyone can make money handling cool, ita??s Apple. Get your Apple card here. (8-))
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[jbbevan]

I, too, have used Quicken for most of 20 years. I use in on the PC platform (still) because the migration from PC to Mac is so painful. (I do run it in Parallels, however.)
My wish for this conversion would be data file compatibility with the PC version so that the hoards that are migrating to the Mac will have a better go of it.
If Office can be compatible across platforms, then why not Quicken/TurboTax/Intuit?
JBB

[lwdesign]

What I'd really like to see is a Mac version of QuickBooks that has file compatibility with its Windows counterpart. Mac QuickBooks has always lagged far behind the Windows version, and in order to create a file our Windows-based accountant can use is a horrible pain, if it can be used at all. What's especially damning is that the head of Intuit is a member of Apple's board of directors!!! C'mon Intuit, make both versions of QuickBooks (and Quicken for that matter) cross-platform compatible. If Adobe can do it with their incredibly complex applications, surely you can do it with yours!

[ejodee]

I just bought Quicken after a cooling off period where I hated it so much I swore I would never buy it. It has been long enough I can't even remember the reason, just the sentiment.
I chose quicken 2007 because I can download my online banking info, can split transactions (which for some stupid reason you can't with online version - first disappointment) and because it is suitable for our business bookkeeping. It's bad enough I use MS Office, I can't use MS Money too, and I am NOT going to run Windows on my Mac. Ever.
Other disappointments from Quicken: Why can't the Quicken 2007 guess what your categories are like online does? Also, when you find out you can't split your transactions online, and go to switch from online to download, you can't download your online accounts and have to start over. Words don't do justice to the idiocy of that move.
As for this Financial Life, it is interesting that Intuit is paying enough attention to Macs to at least make Quicken look really cool. But, as Mac owners since the 80s I have had a love-hate thing with Quicken and Quickbooks for years, and I am rolling my eyes over this new development, just like anyone else I guess.
The one new feature I want, and it will be a dealbreaker, is the ability to display the register with a bigger font. Right now (version 2007) these jerks overlooked that, which is completely unbelievable and strikes me as completely insensitive on many, many fronts.
I'm not handicapped, just middle-aged. I'm enduring hours of running my beautiful brand-new 24" iMac on lower resolution, trying to sort through the tangled mess of our finances, looking at horrid pixilated fonts, just because some turdhoppers disregarded (what I have heard is) a massively huge boomer population. I may be more outraged than if I were legally blind, because my vanity is involved. Using lower resolution makes me feel old.
Thanks for the buzzkill Intuit! Jerks!

[bgarlock]

Well, at least they are listening to Mac customers, and it sounds as if the re-write will be a more Mac like experience, so this is a good thing. Anyone who develops software knows how long it takes to get software right If you pressure developers for a ship date, you get what Microsoft has in Windows, instead of waiting to release something like Windows 7, which is what the product should have been released as.
I say kudos to the Mac developers at Intuit for being honest, and taking the time to do it right the first time. To often high expectations for products, and the managers that says they want to release something, so they have a news blurb for a software release, often ends up hurting the software users. Please be patient, and let them do it right :-)