Financial software package developer Intuit Inc has, as expected, relented on its decision of a few weeks back to halt the development of Macintosh versions of its Quicken package (CI No 3,396). Mountain View, California-based Intuit originally said it was abandoning the Mac base because Apple wasn’t targeting consumers. But after talks between Apple’s interim CEO Steve Jobs and Intuit president and CEO Bill Campbell, Intuit said it had now been informed of Apple’s plans for the consumer market, and was excited about them. The company told Reuters that back in October, when it had made it plans for future products, it had no insight into Apple’s plans. Apple is expected to introduce a low-cost line of consumer products before the end of the year, but has released no details. Apple and Intuit also plan to cooperate on personal finance applications for the Intenet through Intuit’s Quicken.com web site, the two said.
