Filed under: Software, Odds and ends, Leopard
New QuickBooks for Mac coming in 2008
QuickBooks 2008 apparently was released this week by Inuit-- unfortunately, this makes the release of the Windows client only. Macworld, however, is reporting that if QuickBooks is your thing, you've only got a few more months to wait. Intuit is still planning to release a version of QB 2008 for Mac... in 2008 itself.The quote comes from the Intuit FAQ for Mac, which says basically that they're waiting for Leopard to reveal itself before they release their own software. Not a bad reason for delay, I guess, but I really wonder what extra features Inuit might include in their software that would require Leopard to work. Will QuickBooks really be using any of the Core Image stuff to beef up their presentations and spreadsheets? Doubtful, but it would be awesome if they did.
At any rate, Intuit says that if you need QuickBooks right now, there's always the 2007 version, and to stay tuned for everything else, including a release date for 2008.
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Smyge said 7:48PM on 9-28-2007
http://www.midnightapps.com/
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Ben said 7:48PM on 9-28-2007
It'd better be Universal.
Intel macs aside, this is the worst software for the Mac I've used and if it wasn't so difficult to switch back to the PC version I'd run it in parallels.
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Ben said 8:04PM on 9-28-2007
Smyge,
Yeah Cha-Ching is definitely an option, but I can't go to any app that doesn't automatically download all my transactions from all my banks and credit cards.
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Brady J. Frey said 8:13PM on 9-28-2007
Quickbooks for mac really is horrible - we talk with them every year, and every year we get a watered down application. The windows version is corporate robust, and there's definately a market, I don't know why they continue to ignore us every year. Company wide, we've started to migrate away from it.
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Gabriel Gomez-Iglesias said 8:49PM on 9-28-2007
I use Quickbooks Pro 2001 Windows edition at work and QB Pro 2007 on my Mac for my personal company. The latest QB for Mac is so inferior to the 7 year old windows version that it isn't even funny, it's enraging. I will never pay for another damn Intuit upgrade. If I do upgrade it will be via torrent and no guilt will be felt on my part.
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Ed said 9:02PM on 9-28-2007
It's an excuse, nothing more.
It's remarkable that there's really no good financial management software available for the Mac...
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Dave said 10:26PM on 9-28-2007
I'm using Quicken 2006 (Rosetta :( ) with my MacBook Pro. I would be nice if they would release a Universal version. I'm looking for something Universal that's a bit better than Cha-Ching. Any thoughts?
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Tony Ward said 10:29PM on 9-28-2007
Maybe iLife '09 will introduce a new app called Bucks.
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Maynard Handley said 10:51PM on 9-28-2007
I've not used Cha-Ching, but the web site does not fill me with confidence.
Sad and pathetic as it is, Quicken, frustratingly, still seems to remain the best personal finance app available for Mac if you are interested in anything more than the basics.
Specifically, while all these apps track debts and cash flows (useful) and perform budgeting (of zero interest to me) they all appear to be even more pathetic and limited than Quicken when it comes to tracking assets (stocks, mutual funds, retirement accounts and so on). I'm not asking for much, damnit --- the ability to define these things, download daily prices, draw graphs and calculate returns. Even this pathetic collection of requests is poorly handled by Quicken (which can't draw log-linear graphs and doesn't seem to understand that what one cares about for an investment is the ANNUAL fscking return, not the return since you bought the damn asset); but at least Quicken has some skin in the game, which appears to be more than, for example, is offered by Cha-Ching.
It's a real shame --- Cha-Ching looks very pretty, and god knows I'd rather give money to someone other than Intuit --- but I need an app that is targetted at more complex personal finance than the situation of your average college student.
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CP Stud said 11:40AM on 9-29-2007
I talked to a Intuit college recruiter yesterday at my school, and asked them about their offerings for the Mac. She was very negative towards the Mac operating system and said their Quickbooks for Mac is about 5 years behind the Windows version. I asked her if that's expected to change anytime soon and she said no the demand just isn't there. I think this is a huge mistake on Intuit's part, seeing that I know about 20 people that have told me when they need a new computer it will be a Mac. The demand may not be there now but in 5 years expect things to change. But then again, I guess small business owenrs isn't Intuit's target market???
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BWhaler said 3:46PM on 9-29-2007
A little bird told me that "important" folks have been angry about the Intuit lack of support over the years, but given the Board relationships, things have been muted.
This has changed.
Why?
1. The big guy hates being held hostage by third parties, an issue very much on his mind given the short term and strategic threat in the music division. Yes, not a good time to be messing around by delivering late bits with a feature set which has trailed the Windows version for about a decade.
2. Also, people in power understand that one of the core things a family does with a personal computer is manage family finances. The last few versions of Quicken have been viewed as insults against the gentlemen's agreement a few years back.
So what's the deal:
Watch for an Apple+Google solution. Not soon. But coming.
And Intuit won't see it coming until it plows them over. They think they will hear about new threats from the financial institutions. Not this time, because it's a game changer.
...or maybe I am just making this all up for giggles. :-) Either way, don't sue me. :-)
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