Paying for itbe one thing if they improved the interface, added features, or fixed other bugs including database instabilities but they didn't. Instead of keeping up with the technology changes via revisions or an updated product which they first promised Quicken Essentials to be, but which it was not and based on public announcements, probably never will. The only reason I believe that they even did the fix is because of the loud outcry from Lion users and the potential effect that might have on marketing their other products. If they were seriously interested in the Mac platform I believe they would have focused on Quicken Essentials by adding adding additional modules as they had first indicated that would fully support investments and bill paying services; and had it ready for the Lion release. They certainly had enough time to do this.If they had done this I would have been very happy to pay for it. But they didn't. Instead they most likely either recompiled it for the Intel processor, or incorporated Rosetta into it. That leads me with the impression their paradigm is to silence the streams about incompatibility that will not affect their marketing of other products. Again, I would not be suprised if this was the very last update of the product as I have not seen any reports of future work or releases of it.

To sum this up it seems to me that Intuit is asking customers to anti up fee to make their product compatible with the current OS, something they should have done years ago that does not benefit the user in any way other than to all it to tun on the current OS, along with seemly limited expectations of improvement or continued support of the product.

My solution: Get a copy of Virtual Box (Free) and install Snow Leapord on it. If you are a Lion users, you probably already have Snow Leopard. While their my be some technical license issues with this, as long as you restrict its use to Quicken, and do not distribute a working package, I figure it is highly unlikely that Apple will pursue individual users who do this for Quicken support on a single machine and have licensed copies of Lion and Snow Leopard.

So while I support the general tone of your reply, in the case of Quicken, paying $15 for a 'bug' update on a product with a seemingly dim future seems a bit much.