If your subscription expired and was not renewed, you can't get a new key and your database is toast. If you do not use the program for 30 days or do not have internet access for 30 days, you will have to jump through some hoops to get access again. From that point, each time you open the program it fetches a decryption key from the mother ship, together with an expiration date sometime in the future (30 days maybe). Sometime along the way, the currently-weak database encryption is substantially strengthened. After that "update" you find that your standalone copy can't open the database any more. Sometime during that year you get a pop-up message that says "Updating Database." There is no option to decline. You, a loyal customer who has a standalone copy, decides that the current subscription price is acceptable and you sign up for a year. DAT files to make Quicken useless to me? Could I stop that from happening by using my Firewall to 'block' them from access to my computer? I use none of their 'online' services so that wouldn't be a loss to me. So what I'm wondering about this 'Hostage' thing is that is what you're saying is they could literally lock up my. I actually move the money through the Banks site but having Quicken move it between 'registers' is a time saver. I have more than a couple accounts and move money between them a lot so the Transfer function is valuable to me. But I do use a lot of the functions like having it enter my 'recurring transactions' six months in advance and being able to enter other 'non recurring' ones that I know are coming up to get a projection of where I'm going to be a few months down the road. Don't use their Bill Pay, I just use the Bill Pay in my Banks site. I've never linked it to bank, credit card, stock or any other type of account.
If you've been watching, M$ has been repeatedly reminding us that "Windows is a service." Hard to guess when this bitter pill will be stuffed down our throats but IMO it is inevitable and not far off.Ĭlick to expand.I've been a Quicken user since just about day one. Here is more than you ever wanted to know (124 posts): MD does have a current problem with importing stock prices due to Yahoo cutting off their stock price API, but I think having automatic stock price import is an existential issue for MD so I expect them to solve the problem.
but I have been parallel running MD and Quicken for a couple of months now and have not seen problems. It took hours of dog work correcting import errors, etc. I recently switched 25 years of transactions to MoneyDance, which seems to me to be the best current alternative. If they double the price and lose 40% of their customers, they are $$ ahead in the cash register.
They are just finishing the phase of sucking people in and now beginning the phase of screwing them. Their last quarterly report showed a huge revenue increase, beat the analysts' estimate on profits, and BTW reminded customers that they will be raising subscription prices beginning in the spring.
IOW, they are admitting that they can no longer offer upgrades that customers find attractive enough to pay for, so they have to lock in the revenue some other way.Īdobe was a pioneer at this.
#Is quicken for mac 2017 subscription only software
Yes, all of the software vendors are realizing that they can decouple R&D expenses from revenue by going to subscriptions.
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