As is his wont, Mac-, iPhone-, and iPad-user Rush Limbaugh addressed an Apple Mac-related issue on what, since its inception on August 1, 1988, is the highest-rated talk radio show in the United States. The 3-hour Rush Limbaugh Show airs daily on a network of approximately 590 AM and FM affiliate stations.
Limbaugh said:
I had one computer left to upgrade to OS X Lion. So I did that, and… (interruption) What? I didn’t say that, that’s true. If you’re still using that stuff you deserve to have it wiped out. Like, for example, I use Quicken, which was made for Power PC chip, and the Quicken I have is from 2007. It doesn’t work anymore. You know, in previous versions of OS X they had this program called Rosetta that would translate Power PC programs up to these Intel chips, but they stopped doing that. This is it. Now, I knew in advance that it wasn’t gonna work so I’ve got Quicken on a separate computer that I’m [not] upgrading to Lion. That’s how I handled it. (interruption) Snerdley, are you still using Word Perfect as a…? Well, good. If you’re using stuff from 2004, it deserves to be wiped out! You need to upgrade.
I just got a note that some people say that there’s a program out there, if you use Quicken 2007 on your Mac. Of course, it won’t work with Lion, and Quicken’s not gonna fix it. They’ve got an upgrade called the Quicken Essentials but it’s not any good. The Quicken CEO’s on the Apple board. This makes no sense, but I’m not gonna upgrade so you gotta keep an old computer around at System 10.6 whatever to use Quicken. And they say, “Well, there’s a new app out there called iBank,” which I tried. I exported all my Quicken stuff to iBank and I imported it. The problem is that none of the memorized transactions arrived. Quicken’s got a lot, and the reporting — prepare a tax summary or whatever — that’s not nearly as good, and therefore not useful for me.
But I don’t want to run down iBank. I mean, if you just need a checkbook — write checks, keep track of stuff — you can do that, but if you use Quicken to really keep track everything tax-wise, iBank, I hadn’t found a way to make it work. For example, in Quicken when you’re writing a check, you gotta write a check to American Express, you type in a-m, it all fills in. You type a-m, it all fills — it’s a memorized transaction, all the addresses and so forth, and if there are multiple, you scroll through the, hit what you want. None of that transferred in the import, and then there are schedule transactions, every month certain bills get paid, income. That didn’t import.
So it’s got a great interface, and it does print checks and all that kind of stuff but — I tried it. Tried it. I’m not trying to run it down. It doesn’t do everything Quicken does — it kind of ticks me off here that I gotta keep a computer on the old system just to use Quicken. This Intuit people, you know, they’re one of these outfits that cares about Windows and Apple or Mac, but they’re on the Apple board.
Source: RushLimbaugh.com.
MacDailyNews Note: Limbaugh is likely referring to Bill Campbell, Chairman of Apple’s Board of Directors, who previously served as Intuit’s president and CEO from 1994 to 1998 and as CEO from September 1999 until January 2000 and who obviously has zero pull with Intuit now or the lazy, incompetent bastages likely wouldn’t be screwing Quicken for Mac users today.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]
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As stated earlier, the problem isn’t really a Rosetta issue. Rosetta has been around for plenty of time to get developers to move their products over to Intel. Quicken for the Mac has ALWAYS been the bastard stepchild compared to the windows version. Intuit has had plenty of time to develop an intel mac native version, they have just not bothered.
If Quicken for Mac is good enough for you, you don’t have to resort to windows, as you can still run a Snow Leopard partition. But honestly, the virtualized windows solution is better since the windows version offers more features.
Yeah, you gotta wonder why a billionaire even bothers with doing this stuff. Just hire your team of accountants, and leave the home financing to us commoners.
MDN’s take has two errors:
– Bill Campbell is on Apple’s board, but he is not chairman. Apple does not list a board chairman. Instead, they list two co-lead directors: http://investor.apple.com/faq.cfm?FaqSetID=6
– Bill Campbell is still Chairman of the Board of Intuit, so one assumes he has some pull with them: http://about.intuit.com/about_intuit/executives/bill_campbell.jsp
“Who are the members of Apple’s board of directors?
William V. Campbell
Chairman
Intuit, Inc.”
good catch.. So that means Rush was right…. Again.
and ALL those that bashed Rush in this thread for being wrong about Bill Campbell… Whoops.
But they will not even bother reading those links… or say they were wrong.
I think he is Chairman of Intuits board.
Just more proof Druggie Limbaugh is still using.
With MYOB one could take the data file from a Mac and send it to the CPA whom had a Windows version of MYOB, and then make entries, and send it back to the Mac!
Better written software than QuickBooks. Check the blogs
Sorry, MDN, more double standards and hypocrisy here.
This is, pure and simple, an Apple issue. Apple chose to abandon Rosetta. If a new version of Windoze didn’t have backward compatibility for third-party programs you would trumpet it as a bad thing. But when Apple abandons support for programs that were working fine two weeks ago you don’t bat an eyelash.
I know we live in a society that is used to planned obsolescence, but come on. If I have a version of M$ Office for the Mac that works fine for me, why should I applaud Apple for, in effect, breaking it. Sure, I could pony up cash to buy a new version. But then the true cost of Lion is no longer $29.
if you actually read some of the other posts here…
Rosetta was NEVER intended to stick around forever. Just llike when Apple switched CPU’s to PowerPC, the emulation software was around for a while… then discontinued.
Rosetta was a stepping stone for Dev’s and users to UPGRADE to Intel code only.
Rosetta’s time was Limited… Go back and READ Apple’s introduction of Rosetta. it was never meant to be permanent. Apple held up their end of the deal…. Dev’s did not. they got lazy and did not conform, and now you are mad at Apple when you should be mad at the Dev’s that did not update their software. (abandoned software excluded)
Duh. You missed the point. My issue is nothing to do with lazy developers; it’s that theres an upgrade cost associated with Lion.
I for one, as a stockholder, am glad that Limbaugh is pro-Mac. I am sure that many of his listeners have moved to the Mac based on his being so pro-Apple. I am always amused by how the libs want to keep certain people out of their little Apple clique. Get used to it. Apple is mainstream and kicking a$$. And I am sure that Steve Jobs is pleased by Limbaugh’s hyping Apple. Seems like Limbaugh gets his stuff ahead of time. Jobs knows that Limbaugh has clout with his listeners.
The reason Quicken isn’t being updated is because Quicken has been trying to move people to it’s online banking system for years. That’s why Quicken just bought Mint.com because no one was using Quicken Essentials for Mac or Quicken.com.
The real problem I have is Quicken started out on the Mac (I believe) but fornthe past 10 years or so has treated the Mac like the equivalent of sending your kids out to pick up 4 weeks worth of dog poo.
I’ve got a better question for you – why does MYOB charge double for their Mac software compared to their Windows software?