Intuit Hates Apple Users

http://www.filthylucre.com/intuit-hates-apple-users

by filthylucre • 15 years ago

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shaunfs• 15 years ago

I have the same issues with Intuit mobile and desktop apps.

I can't blame Intuit. In just a few years, personal computing went from fairly homogeneous (Windows PC) to incredibly fragmented. It takes massive resources not just to make software for each platform but also to keep feature parity among them all.

The best bet for these types of companies is to switch their products to a SaaS and then just build thin native UIs for mobile.

filthylucre2• 15 years ago

Considering Intuit has an influx of revenue every year they push out this product, it should be expected that they support that years technology.

sardonicbryan• 15 years ago

Is this statement actually true?

"If you purchased a laptop today, you are more likely to have purchased a Mac over any other type of computer. If you’re someone who makes over $250,000 per year, and you purchased a laptop, you almost certainly purchased a Macbook Pro."

Wikipedia seems to indicate that a reasonable estimate of OSX market share would be around 10%, with 20% on the high end (Steve Jobs claimed 20% in 10/2010). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_system...

If that statement is not true, doesn't that significantly undercut the author's argument?

filthylucre2• 15 years ago

The sentence is meant to reflect Apple vs. any other laptop maker (Dell, HP, Asus, etc...).

ugh• 15 years ago

It’s still doesn’t seem to be true. Apple had 8.5 percent marketshare in the US in 1Q11 and even less worldwide. HP (27%), Dell (23%) and Toshiba (10%) are ahead of Apple.

pohl• 15 years ago

In order for that statement to be true, Apple would have to sell more laptops than any other vendor. Quickbooks is probably biased towards the U.S. market, so considering that in August 2007 1 in 6 laptops sold in the U.S. market was a Mac, it might be true.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cUjZ_7rlAmKRDVB6GXId73h_...

If you put all of the millions of laptops sold in the U.S. into a big bag, and you drew one out at random and inspected the laptop to determine its brand, the greatest odds are that the brand would be Apple. I believe that was the claim.

inportb• 15 years ago

Interesting. Well, what I did was set up a WinXP virtual machine on my Linux server, and used QuickBooks over the local network.

zdw• 15 years ago

Quickbooks doesn't just hate Apple users - they hate everyone (and just hate Apple a little more than the rest). As someone who has dealt with their products on both platforms, from a systems or network admin standpoint they all vary between horrid and dismal.

For example, certain versions required that you run as admin (bad security policy), and would update themselves in the background silently. The update would break compatibility with networked files, and was huge. So someone would take the update, the data file then wouldn't work on everyone else's computer until they updated, which would swamp the network and generally cause havoc.

As an alternative, if you're a geek I highly recommend the programs found a http://ledger-cli.org/

MikeMacMan• 15 years ago

"I won’t bore you with a long description, let me just say that it sucks. I means really sucks. I mean sucks like a collapsing star sucks."

No, please, bore us with a long description. I migrated my family business's 5 company accounts from Quickbooks Desktop (Win) to Quickbooks Online this past March. I use it every day, as does my mom (who is not very computer savvy). We're both in agreement that it is much better than Desktop, at least for what we do (entering sales receipts, bank reconciliations, running reports). For us, one key benefit of using Quickbooks Online is the ability to switch between companies very quickly.

Intuit Hates Apple Users

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