Intuit Abandoning Quicken - No Discussion at Quicken Live Community?

Intuit doesn't care about customer concerns, and their "Community" is the last place to try and reach anyone from the company.

Ask any Intuit employee how they feel about ignorance and apathy and their response would be "We don't know and we don't care".

There is some discussion on mint vs. Quicken. JPS

more than just censorship... they actively use creative "editing" and outright removal of posts that paint their cash cow in anything less than a favorable light. the entire "community" is nothing more than a hangout for the fanboys & rabid apologists, a few of which practice here.

Hi, Jan.

See this link from the post by Gordon Potter on January 15 that started the thread, Intuit Abandoning Quicken:

In that interview, Aaron Patzer indicated that the desktop version of Quicken might be discontinued after another 5 years. There was no definitive statement to that effect, but it seems to fit with what we can see of Quicken's plans, including their acquisition of Mint.

RC

Google Groups is your friend. Earlier in this thread the link was posted to the BusinessWeek article where the new Quicken Product Manager discussed his sunsetting plans for Quicken Desktop and plans to migrate those users to Mint.

"Mr.Jan" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@x9g2000vbo.googlegroups.com:

I think 5 years from now is a long time. Who knows what is going on then. I might retire fairly soon, and then perhaps I can reenter all my data into one of the Quicken competitors, such as they are. On the other hand, as long as I get at least an authoritative copy to keep on a home machine, much of what I do is downloading from internet sources anyway. Therefore, doing the "heavy" computing in the cloud should be OK. But I still like to see (at least previously entered) data without the necessity of an internet connection.

While it would be nice to have everything on the home pc, I could live with it on the internet. Right now with windows and broadband, the internet is interwoven with everyday computing so much that it's almost seamless.

"Tim Conway" wrote in news:hkuo9d$gcj$ snipped-for-privacy@news.eternal-september.org:

Almost seamless. The problem is what happens if the "cloud" has an oopsie? And I need some data now? Even granting that the cloud should indeed have multiple backup redundancy, if the backbone goes down, or something gets scrambled between your screen and the data source, can you wait until things are back up? That presumes that your data are indeed secure.

Good point. Hopefully they will have it all backed up and instantly available. History shows that that isn't always the case though. I find it frightening to put all my data in someone else's hands. But, OTOH, even the best laid plans at home can fail too. It looks as though we're always vulnerable.

And that's a totally unwarranted presumption, I'm afraid.

Yes, but much less so when we can maintain control over our own apps, our own data. To rely on someone else to maintain, secure and present our data for our use how and when it is needed is a frightening thought and will inevitably cost the user, who has no other choice (which is another issue relevant to the discussion).

Mikel

I don't see why Intuit doesn't keep Quicken desktop on indefinately. They certainly have a captive clientele. It's arguably the best personal financial softsware. They should see not to screw around with a good thing.

"Mikel Sunova" wrote in news:7EDcn.155644$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfe25.iad:

If you keep all your backups in the same location, a fire can wipe you out. If you keep some off site, you also relinquish some control.

I like redundancy, and that would be how Intuit should approach this - redundancy and control by the owner of the data, under multimodal access.

XS11E wrote in news:Xns9D1B7832F6450xs11eyahoocom@

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I agree completely, but secure comes in many degrees ... There is stupidity, accident, and theft.

I think that Intuit follows a different logic than most of the world. They make an excellent product, but they do tend to often make decisions that seem to tell their customers to 'get screwed'. As has been discussed in other threads, Intuit's mistake may be that they announced their intent so early. This gives some enterprising fledgling (i.e., MoneyDance, etc.) the opportunity to step up to the plate and offer a comparable product that

*will* stay on the desktop, thus capturing perhaps a large segment of the market.

Mikel