Intuit claimed these features were heavily dependent on code that was specific for the PowerPC chip and could not be easily ported to the Intel platform, but given the high demand for these features, Intuit looked into getting Quicken 2007 running in Lion. While Intuit has developed Quicken Essentials for OS X that uses Intel-native code, the program is missing a number of features from the older Quicken packages, making it an unattractive option for those who have heavily used Quicken in the past. Unfortunately this move did prevent a number of older software packages from running in Lion, with one of these being the popular Quicken 2007 personal finance software for OS X. When OS X Lion was released, Apple dropped all support for the PowerPC processor by removing the Rosetta dynamic translator that allowed PowerPC code to run on Intel-based Macs.
