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Is an update to Quickbooks Mac 2014 Planned for Yosemite compatibility?

I have read Intuits support entry of 10/25/14 which says "QuickBooks for Mac 2014 and earlier versions may run on OS X 10.10 (Yosemite), but are not supported at this time. We won't take steps to prevent customers from installing QuickBooks, but know that some features may not run correctly in this environment.  Earlier versions of QuickBooks were designed and built to run on the Mac OS version that was available at that time and not Mac OS X 10.10."

I recently upgraded to 2014 from 2011, and sooner than I had planned upgraded machines to a new Retina laptop running Mavericks. It's Yosemite-ready and the *only* thing holding me from upgrading OS is Quickbooks. 2011 received numerous updates over the years; have 2012 and 2013 also? I'm trying to divine what might occur regarding 2014 and Yosemite; the statement above seems to foreclose that possibility. I don't need and cannot justify annual $250 application upgrades.

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    I feel It is grossly unfair of Intuit to require users to repurchase at full price an updated version of Quickbooks. I purchased 2014 six months ago, am forced to upgrade to Yosemite by Apple (to keep Pages running on iCloud), and now have to pay full price again for QB2015.

    Intuit should take a hint form other s/w vendors who scale the price of the upgrade based on the length of time since the users last upgrade.

    I for one, will be looking for new accounting s/w from a different vendor.
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    • I believe if you call Intuit they will offer you a discount on a 2014 to 2015 upgrade caused by needing Yosemite compatibility.  However as far as I know 2014 works on Yosemite for most people - we can't officially support it due to some arcane financial laws related to revenue recognition.
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