Today’s news: Apple brings back the BSOD

Via The Register:

Apple support drones are getting an earful from Mac users who are getting the dreaded Blue Screen of Death while trying to update to the latest and greatest version of OS X. This thread on an official Apple support forum has more than 200 posts left in 25 hours at time of writing. A large percentage of the writers report getting a persistent blue screen that forces them to abort their installation of Leopard.

My two cents: Pardon me for one second …

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

OK, I’m back.

It would be wrong, I say, wrong of me to chuckle (or laugh like a maniac) at the news that the Mac users are encountering the Blue Screen of Death on their precious Apples. I haven’t seen the BSOD on any of my computers since I switched to Windows XP many, many years ago.

From the article:

We can only hope the normally smug Mac Guy is duly red-faced. After all, aren’t BSODs, botched installs and kludgy fixes the stuff of the inferior OS to Cupertino’s North? Not that we don’t look forward to updating to Leopard soon. But as was the case with users of the iPhone, we think it’d be better to hold off a little while, thank you very much. ®

I’m sure that Steve Jobs is hard at work right now thinking up a solution … or at least a way to blame the users. It’s an insult to his status as a Higher Being, after all, to even acknowledge the existence of anything less than perfect coming out of the Cult of Apple. The only polite thing to do is not notice.

Hat tip: Techmeme by way of Twitter.