Mac OS Upgrade Proves Disastrous
This afternoon I finally decided I'd upgrade my iPhone 3G to iOS4 even though I have an iPhone4 on order. So I backed up the phone, hooked up to iTunes, and began the process. Imagine my surprise when I was confronted with a list of a handful of upgrades that were necessary to my system, including, as expected iTunes 9.2. I authorized the upgrades and took a break.
When I came back, my system was running so I launched iTunes. And it promptly quit without starting. I did this two more times. Then I restarted my system. Tried again. Same result. This time when my system came back up, two other apps that depend to one degree or another on a Net connection crashed when auto-launched during the startup process. One of these is Skype. I tried all the usual remedies with Skype (removing the plist, removing the prefs, etc.) to no avail.
This is the kind of crap Windows users have to put up with all the time. But there's nothing so non-standard about this system (10.6.4) that should cause this much disruption. Yet my quick search before I head for home hasn't revealed any other reports of similar problems and, of course, now the Software Updater says there's nothing I need to update. I feel hosed and not a little discouraged.
Any pointers? I'm going to look around harder on the Web when I get home and get some food in me but this is just ludicrous.
