Quicken is sort of not dead

As I was entering the South hall of Moscone, Intuit people were handing out “Quicken Online” flyers. I immediately thought that this was the end of Quicken for the Mac. Considering that Quicken still doesn’t ran natively on Intel Macs, I didn’t think this was strange. When I got to the Intuit booth, I was pleasantly surprised to see them demoing a successor to Quicken which I was told was a complete rewrite in Cocoa. However, as another blog has mentioned, it will be missing a number of features of Quicken 2007. As long as it is equivalent to Quicken 2005 (which I use), I’ll be happy. One feature that struck me as a gratuitous use of Cover Flow is the ability to scroll through your accounts with a Cover Flow like view. It seems like a lot of eye candy; hopefully the product will be solid. We’ll have to wait until September to see.

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