Mavericks killed my MacBook Air

Over night I downloaded Mavericks, having waited some weeks with the hope of avoiding any glitches. This morning I proceeded to install and suddenly got a fatal hard drive failure. As a solid-state drive, I innocently assumed this could not happen, especially after an OS update. But speaking with our tech consultant shortly afterwards, he told me that he had three other clients recently who have had their Macs die immediately upon upgrading to Mavericks. Interestingly, all were MacBook Air. I'm the fourth client of his with this problem.
Luckily, I backed up yesterday and am now trying to Time Machine restore to another MB Air. However, as a super loyal Mac user for the last 23 years (since I was 15!) I'm quite honestly shocked that this has happened. It's Apple after all. My machine was top of the line MB Air bought in Oct 2012 - only just over a year ago. Yet it's been rendered useless by a simple software update. And if I were not lucky enough to have a 2nd machine I bought at the same time, I would be unable to work for a week while the new one is replaced/repaired by Apple.
I would love some explanation as to why this happened. I feel let down by Apple. As somebody who has personally converted many offices and individuals to Apple over the years, I fell personally embarrassed by this blip. I now find myself emailing my colleagues to warn them to not upgrade.
I would appreciate any thoughts or responses you may have.
A

Thanks Pete.
You're quite right. Roaring is not my thing. But I have to say I'm really surprised by this. My laptop is my work, as it is for most of us these days. We use Apple because we like the friendly aspect and because it's an incredibly brilliant professional tool.
In this day and age, I do think however it would be fair to expect that any potential errors would be flagged as part of the install process, before the problem actually happens. My machine should be smart enough to not crash itself. My MB Air is barely twelve months old and was working fine until the service upgrade. If this were a car, we would rightly have little tolerance for these kinds of issues. Especially, as I'm the ideal client who walks into the showroom every 6 months and says "I would like to buy another one of your cars/products please". I'm not working with a four year old machine.
Thanks for your feedback.
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