Comments on: More Details About the Intuit-Mint Deal: Quicken Online to Get Mint-ized

By: Quicken Online and Mint - berbs.us

Quicken Online and Mint - berbs.us — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:25:12 +0000

[...] buying and then killing off Mint were not only unfounded, but wildly inaccurate. Not only is Intuit replacing the current Quicken Online with Mint, it’s putting the Mint guys in charge of innovating the [...]

By: Bobby Travis

Bobby Travis — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:36:47 +0000

Hmm. My biggest concern actually comes as a (Canadian) Quicken Online user. I went to Quicken Online over Mint.com for the simple fact that Quicken (unofficially) supports Canadian banks. If the just port everything over to Mint, then that tiny but oh-so-important piece of technology may not be there anymore. I am not the only Canadian on the service. It seems we must prepare to once again be shafted by licensing and related issues — e.g. Skype In, Hulu, Pandora, Last.FM mobile, imeem… even some YouTube content (was unable to watch the Ghostbusters release on YouTube or the recent Kanye West idiocy-apology on the new Leno show).

*sigh*

By: Tubby Bartles

Tubby Bartles — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:55:57 +0000

I hope it’s true that Mint continues to innovate. Intuit bought Paytrust, another one of my favorite companies, and they promptly stopped all development. It even still puts out data in QIF format (which hasn’t been supported by Quicken in years!), meaning Intuit won’t even invest enough to make their own service work with their own product.

I switched to Mint as a result, since there was no longer a link between Paytrust and Quicken, but now Intuit bought Mint too. I hope they don’t do the same thing to this company.

By: MinTuit: a Second Look. (You Will Be Assimilated). | CloudAve

MinTuit: a Second Look. (You Will Be Assimilated). | CloudAve — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:05:18 +0000

[...] End of story. The Personal Finance market is back with it’s original owner, Intuit.Update: Harry McCracken has another version of the Mintuit logo.Update #2: More on how the merger will play out. [...]

By: Richard Mackey

Richard Mackey — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:06:14 +0000

When Intuit bought out MYOB it was assumed the snatched-up product simply had a new overlord, and would eventually transition into a Quickbooks-looking thing over time. As it turned out it was purchased solely for it’s customer base and promptly destroyed.
On the very next upgrade cycle MYOB customers were informed that they had to buy the latest Quickbooks, and their import tool would safely and easily migrate all their data.
After a full day of beating on it we finally gave up. No matter what you did, there were large swaths of data missing and the program couldn’t see any problem with it.
To this day that company still uses MYOB thanks to a 3rd party service called Targetupdate and they are happy to this day.