Intuit brings Quicken to iPhone

Now, instead of just losing your financial data in the privacy of your own home/business while at your computer, intuit is offering the ability to lose your data WHILE USING THE SUPER-COOL IPHONE! For the low price of only $3 a month!

I hope that the lost data debacle stains intuit so bad they go under. They blow ass. Do they really think people want to pay $3 a month to use quicken on a mobile phone? After a year, you could have just bought a copy of the real thing anyways (or an easier-to-use alternative).

It's comical that Intuit made a business decision based on their thinking that Apple Users are early adopters and likely to use the service. It would be nice if Intuit would give mac users the same feature set as windows users. Lets see, iPhone is expensive so the users can afford/justify 3$ a month. Just trying to capitalize on iPhone's popularity.

Why should I trust Intuit to store all my transactions? I'm not as worried about them in transmission as I am with Intuit storing them. That's a great data mine waiting for harvest. Talk about targeting ads, just look at every transaction at every store. If people sign up for that, it should be provided free of charge.

...might have held off on this announcement for a while, to let the Quickbooks update debacle blow over.

Then again, a smarter company might also make their flagship product have full feature parity and fully interchangeable data files across platforms. So it's pretty clear the kind of company we're dealing with, here.

I don't know if I will ever like being forced to use web

If you are worried about the monthly cost or the insecurity of your financial data going across the internet, might I suggest that you think of using PocketMoney instead:

http://www.catamount.com/iPhoneApps/PocketMoney.html

It is only $30 total cost. ($25 if you are an existing user on another platform like me.)

As soon as it is out of beta, I'll pay for it, put it on an iPod touch and finally retire my aging Newton.