The 2016 version of QuickBooks for Mac was completely overhauled to take advantage of Apple’s run-time memory model called ARC, or Automatic Reference Counting.
Although this took up the bulk of this year’s development cycle, the QuickBooks for Mac team also found time to add a few new features. A change in the way QuickBooks accesses the Mac’s memory, which previously required extensive modification of the entire code base, should make the application faster and more reliable. The biggest change in QuickBooks ® for Mac 2016 is hidden under the hood.
