We released Photonic this morning to a fair amount of fanfare, which I’ll be posting about a bit later. I wanted to drop a line now that Adam Knight and I will be appearing on Shawn King’s Your Mac Life show tomorrow night to discuss the product. Be sure to tune in!

I awoke groggily and with blurred vision, grabbing my MacBook Pro and sitting down to wake up to the ding of new mail this morning. What did I find? Google Alerts telling me that what I feared was going to happen had happened. Intuit is taking Quicken online as a service rather than as a program.

Why was this something I feared? Because I’ve used Quicken on the Mac since version 7 back in the late 90s. I, personally, have years of data inside it. As a customer, I’m seeing the writing on the wall for the product.

As I related once before on my personal site, this has been rumored for quite a while so the actual service is not a surprise. What it means for the users of desktop Quicken is the surprise.

For the last two years, Barton Springs Software has been in close quarters with another company, sharing conference rooms, bathrooms, and occasionally offices with our neighbors. While it’s nice to split the rent with kindred spirits – they’re all Mac users – eventually one company grows too large for such close quarters. In this case, we both did.