Bill Campbell is not still Intuit's CEO (although he was during Intuit's most egregious years of short-changing the Mac with a bad version of QuickBooks) but he still is on their board. Before Intuit he was head of Claris, Apple's software subsidiary. And yes he still is on Apple's board. In fact he is its chairman.
The man who single-handedly is responsible for hundreds of thousands of Macs not being sold to businesses--who may even have wanted to buy Macs--because they just HAD to have Quickbooks and the only version their accountant would work with was the Windows version. The man who had it in his power to show that the Mac could indeed be just as powerful a business tool as a PC and show all those haters they had no real reason to chose a PC over a Mac. Yes, that guy. I've said this many times, so forgive me if I've said it here before: Every year when I get the proxy statement from Apple for my Apple stock, in the section where I am supposed to put my votes for the board members, I always write in "Everyone but Bill Campbell." It's so bad I would take Al Gore even over him. Sad, but true. Imagine where Apple would be today if thousands upon thousands of small business had a choice as to what computer they could run the "industry standard" QuickBooks on. Apple has succeeded IN SPITE of Bill Campbell. And he's the chairman of the board. Go figure. j. On Jul 7, 2011, at 7:20 PM, Andy Arnold <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree with Lee that the need for Quicken etc. is diminished somewhat. Many > financial websites are much better. Most of us are writing fewer checks. > However, checks are being replaced with credit and debit card transactions, > and downloading then is critical if the goal is to track expenditures, > prepare budgets and plan for the future (of course some credit card companies > now provide annual expense category summaries for their customers). I prefer > to have one place to pull everything together and look at the whole picture, > and that's why I kept using Quicken. > > Intiut's CEO, Bill Campbell sat on Apple's board of directors for years (not > sure if he is still there). Why he didn't know and communicate that Rosetta > was going away is pure mis-management. Of course, other companies have failed > in these transitions as well. I used Quark Xpress for years, but when they > failed to make the move to OSX in a timely manner, I switched to Adobe's > Suite. Had they looked ahead just a bit, they never would have lost a > customer. Intuit is now in the same boat. Later this month when their > customers move to Lion and can't open their Quicken files, the backlash will > be immediate. I can now accomplish almost everything I did on Quicken in > iBank. It is Lion compatible, very quick and nimble and meets my needs. It is > the only other major competitor on shelves in the AppleStore, and is getting > great reviews online. I don't think I'll ever go back to Quicken. I purchased > every Quicken upgrade offered every single year. Over 15 years, that's $750+ > and would have continued to do so for decades more, it is that critical an > app for me. Talk about Too Big to Fail... they were too big and dense to even > realize they could fail. Suggesting I switch to Windows is the final, most > despicable insult of all. If they knew anything about their customers, they > would have realized that suggestion would never fly. > -- Jonathan Fletcher FileMaker 9 & 10 Certified Developer Fletcher Data Consulting [email protected] http://www.fletcherdata.com 502-509-7137 Kentuckiana's FileMaker Users Group Next meeting: July 26, 12:00 pm to 3:00-ish Blog: http://www.kyfmp.com _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
