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Hmm that's really obnoxious, but why would Intuit benefit from forcing people to buy Excel? They don't make any money from that.
by morpheuskafka 6y ago
Hmm that's really obnoxious, but why would Intuit benefit from forcing people to buy Excel? They don't make any money from that.
- archon 6y agoThey benefit by preventing easy access to an export of the user’s data that could then be importied into a competitor’s software, thereby (presumably) locking in a non-trivial number of their own user base who don’t want to deal with the hassle of re-entering all of their financial data in a new product.
- TeMPOraL 6y agoIIRC, they have an Excel plugin. So it's more like: stick with our SaaS; if you really prefer a desktop app, stick to Excel (and our plugin).