Tdubway,
You are an angel 😍
Last Friday 21st Sept, I upgraded my iPhone 3Gs to iOS 6 via Wi-Fi. I left the phone to do it over night. When I woke, I remembered that uprading will not allow my 3Gs to sync with my G5 PowerPC mac 😮
I was running iTunes 10.6.0 at the time. I tried sycing anyway. Got the message that my iphone 3Gs will not sync, and that I need to download itunes 10.7.0. Of course 10.7 does not run on PowerPC's 😢
I tried everything — except erasing the phone. I thought about erasing the phone though, in the hope that I could restore from the last back-up before I upgraded the phone. However, I though twice, because I knew that, if I erased the phone and it did not work, then I would loose everything on the phone. This happened to me before when I was running OSX 10.4, when iTunes 10.5/10.6 was not supported on Power PCs running OSX 10.4.
I searched the whole internet for days. Then today, I stumbled upon this, and All_about_dragons & your posts 😎
To be honest, I did not even know there was an iTunes 10.6.3!
So, I just downloaded and installed it and — volla! My iPhone running iOS 6, sync'ed to my PowerPC Mac, running OSX 10.5.8, like a new born baby to its mothers breast(s); there it is suckling away now 😝
I'm so so chuffed. At one point I was even considering just leaving the iPhone all together after this little iOS 6 stunt from apple, and getting a Samsung Galaxyy S3. I was told the Galaxy S3 has software called "Kies," which is used to sync the S3 and which is just like iTunes. I was gearing up to order an S3 — however, when I went to the Kies (Samsung) website to check the software out, I discovered that the Kies software also has a minimum installation requirement, being yup, an intel powered Mac. 😮, so did not go there as it would have been a case of out of the frying pan and into the fire.
For those who where like me, using a PowerPC Mac, but have upgraded their iphone to iOS 6 and can't sync; download Itunes 10.6.3 from here. dont ask me how, but, IT JUST WORKS! 🙂
Thanks Tdubway,