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the RDF
was and is nothing more than a mythological construct created by non-
Apple users to explain why nobody liked their products. It can be
rephrased in layman's terms as:

Our stuff really doesn't suck, Apple just brainwashes and cheats.
Posted by: frgough   Posted on: 08/10/09  (Edited: 08/10/2009 @ 06:09) You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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the RDF  frgough | 08/10/09
keep fooling yourself  nothingness | 08/10/09
There's a difference between Valid Criticism and...  vulpine@... | 08/10/09
Oh please. RDF is just a term for the reality of Apple's Monopolistic....  xuniL_z | 08/10/09
"It was Steve Jobs that killed BeOS."  vulpine@... | 08/10/09
I believe that Steve Jobs holds the responsibility for it more than anyone.  xuniL_z | 08/11/09
Psystar  xXSpeedzXx | 08/10/09
Re: Psystar  rtk | 08/10/09
If Psystar had become a licensed vendor, you'd have a point.  vulpine@... | 08/10/09
If Apple didn't sell it at retail, to the public, you'd have a point.  rtk | 08/10/09
@vulpine: licensed vendors simply get the OS cheaper  NonZealot | 08/10/09
EULA Invalid.  xuniL_z | 08/11/09
And Commodore wasn't in Atari's market either, how far do you want to spin?  HypnoToad72 | 08/15/09
Actually it was MS who killed BeOS  LazLong | 08/10/09
Sorry, but Apple first destroyed BeOS. And OEMs don't install....  xuniL_z | 08/11/09
Here's your Sign !  Jkirk3279 | 08/18/09
Origins of the RDF  djchandler | 08/10/09
you related to Jobs?  nothingness | 08/11/09
"... you would know the reboot routine is a common occurrence..."  vulpine@... | 08/11/09
Gee, it sounds like you are locked in!  NonZealot | 08/11/09
I never said it was 'difficult,' Zealot...  vulpine@... | 08/14/09
That's goofy  stano360 | 08/12/09
Wise Up!  robertmro | 08/10/09
The RDF is strong with you. (nt)  ye | 08/10/09
Wow, good job vulpine!!  NonZealot | 08/10/09
Is he sleeping with the editors!  eqpc | 08/11/09
Yeah, I thought I noticed some posts were missing  djchandler | 08/11/09
Yes, the spell is lifting  eggmanbubbagee@... | 08/10/09
'Cool' is as Cool does... it's not the nonexistent RDF...  vulpine@... | 08/10/09
nonsense  eggmanbubbagee@... | 08/10/09
Wrong again, eggmanbubbagee...  vulpine@... | 08/10/09
Holy Mary, Mother of GOD!  Lunatic59 | 08/10/09
As for speed, I think you've had enough. Try Valium.  vulpine@... | 08/10/09
At least set the RDF to 5  Lunatic59 | 08/10/09
Reality is when you have the evidence in front of you.  vulpine@... | 08/10/09
Non sequitur  Lunatic59 | 08/10/09
@lunatic: You proved it yourself.  vulpine@... | 08/10/09
hmm  Badgered | 08/10/09
Anecdote != evidence  Lunatic59 | 08/10/09
@vulpine, The RDF is multidimensional  Lunatic59 | 08/10/09
Your history seems to be failing you, @lunatic...  vulpine@... | 08/14/09
NewSpeak  Jkirk3279 | 08/18/09
You're making stuff up.  Lester Young | 08/12/09
Maybe you should read what I said again.  vulpine@... | 08/14/09
Correction?  Jkirk3279 | 08/18/09
Nicely done!!  NonZealot | 08/10/09
You don't want to be... brain.. washed.  Maarek | 08/10/09
Graphic design is not just for Macs any more.  vulpine@... | 08/10/09
"Apple is the Volkswagen of the computer era"  djchandler | 08/10/09
Think about what you said here...  vulpine@... | 08/10/09
Get a sense of humor!  djchandler | 08/11/09
A sense of humor is one thing...  vulpine@... | 08/14/09
RDF...  bmonsterman | 08/10/09
Reality. No Distortion.  vulpine@... | 08/10/09
OH.  bmonsterman | 08/10/09
I agree it's personal choice.  vulpine@... | 08/10/09
One thing that's pretty cool.  bmonsterman | 08/10/09
Booting from VHD even works on the Mac  NonZealot | 08/10/09
Pretty Cool NZ  bmonsterman | 08/10/09
NZ. One of these things is not like the others....  xuniL_z | 08/12/09
@xunil: having OS X is good for one thing  NonZealot | 08/12/09
What if this were 1983 and a Commodore 64 user wanted to run Apple 2 OS?  HypnoToad72 | 08/15/09
Yes, but given how sloppy Windows has become, I wanted to get away from it.  HypnoToad72 | 08/15/09
Why should they care?  pdskep | 08/10/09
future  eggmanbubbagee@... | 08/10/09
In part, you're right...  vulpine@... | 08/10/09
Yeah, that's all  NonZealot | 08/10/09
You poor soul! Macs use same 'generic' parts as PCs  kvkalidindi | 08/15/09
Ugh. The usual "Apple uses the same hardware" trope need a history lesson:  HypnoToad72 | 08/15/09
RDF - what a childish tech-journalist invention  croberts | 08/10/09
re: Bandwagon  Badgered | 08/10/09
Not at all  croberts | 08/10/09
Re: Not at all  rtk | 08/10/09
Proof?  vulpine@... | 08/10/09
re: proof  rtk | 08/10/09
EPIC PWNAGE!!  NonZealot | 08/10/09
@NonZealot  eqpc | 08/11/09
@NZ...what is going on with the pro-Apple thread deletions on here???  Scrat | 08/11/09
Got one problem with your 'proof.'  vulpine@... | 08/14/09
Problem for Vupine  daengbo | 08/15/09
Apple RDF Level 10  thx-1138_@... | 08/10/09
there is an RDF  eggmanbubbagee@... | 08/10/09
Are you saying that Steve Jobs has been lying all these years?  vulpine@... | 08/10/09
Gates learned from Henry Ford, Jobs from P. T. Barnum. nt  djchandler | 08/10/09
So Henry Ford stole the Model 'T'...  vulpine@... | 08/10/09
The licensing of IBM architecture....  Lester Young | 08/12/09
That is NOT what I said.  vulpine@... | 08/14/09
Gates to Ford  cricket2 | 08/12/09
Apple to Microsoft...  vulpine@... | 08/14/09
Both companies  daengbo | 08/15/09
I agree ...  Adrian Kingsley-Hughes ZDNet Moderator | 08/10/09
Go watch the keynote again Adrian  Piot | 08/10/09
RFD FUD  Boot_Agnostic | 08/10/09
I agree--but...  vulpine@... | 08/10/09
RE: Is Apple suffering because it has outgrown its Reality Distortion Field  karnok.d@... | 08/10/09
Apple Never Really had a spell on most of us.  condelirios | 08/10/09
"... the biggest weakness they have had is... "  vulpine@... | 08/10/09
Umm...  condelirios | 08/10/09
One office in the midwest does not the Fortune 500 make.  vulpine@... | 08/10/09
the buy one, get one free promotion  rtk | 08/10/09
I stand corrected  vulpine@... | 08/10/09
No, you were right.  msalzberg | 08/10/09
Sorry, you're incorrect...  msalzberg | 08/10/09
I stand corrected  rtk | 08/10/09
@condelirios. You could make a decent argument...  Piot | 08/10/09
Jason Calacanis has really hit the nail on the head, hard!  Scrat | 08/10/09
"Closed" is Key  sandbenders | 08/10/09
But that doesn't answer  NStalnecker | 08/10/09
RDF is alive and well  ­  | 08/10/09
true, but . .  eggmanbubbagee@... | 08/10/09
Linux can be better--but isn't.  vulpine@... | 08/10/09
Well, Talk about RDF....................... I guess we each have our own?  LazLong | 08/10/09
RE: Is Apple suffering because it has outgrown its Reality Distortion Field?  shollomon | 08/10/09
Considering...  zkiwi | 08/10/09
You actually make an excellent point  NonZealot | 08/10/09
And yet...  vulpine@... | 08/10/09
And yet...  zkiwi | 08/10/09
And yet, Apple is a monopoly......  xuniL_z | 08/12/09
Apple lockdowns new?  msdamico@... | 08/10/09
I think you got your history backwards...  vulpine@... | 08/10/09
My favorite this the "better hardware" lie  Johnny Vegas | 08/10/09
How is Better Hardware a lie?  vulpine@... | 08/10/09
Quality of Mac products vs. PC quality  Rafale555 | 08/10/09
Odd? My year old HP Pavilion supports VT!  Ambivi | 08/10/09
Exactly, 100% right  NonZealot | 08/10/09
Examine the following case  Rafale555 | 08/11/09
Blame Intel for that insanity.  djchandler | 08/11/09
Just an observation...  RicD_ | 08/10/09
What a great rational article  Neil422 | 08/10/09
RDF in action.  eggmanbubbagee@... | 08/10/09
No, the next big thing  honeymonster | 08/10/09
iPhone already has multi-tasking  NonZealot | 08/10/09
More nonsense from NonZealot  matthew_maurice | 08/10/09
So you disagree with the courts that fined MS then?  NonZealot | 08/10/09
Haha, well done!!!  NonZealot | 08/10/09
RDF in action...  vulpine@... | 08/10/09
lol  rtk | 08/10/09
He didn't...  vulpine@... | 08/10/09
huh?  Badgered | 08/10/09
lol  rtk | 08/10/09
yea, who needs cut and paste on a computer?  eggmanbubbagee@... | 08/10/09
Don't forget the commercial about adding video.  pmcgrath@... | 08/11/09
I'll disagree with one point here...  vulpine@... | 08/14/09
So what has Apple done?  Ken_z | 08/10/09
RDF  eMJayy | 08/10/09
The iPhone SMS vulnerability made the news here  NonZealot | 08/10/09
For how long?  vulpine@... | 08/10/09
You TOTALLY missed the point  NonZealot | 08/10/09
Totally Valid Point  any_os | 08/10/09
I agree, Apple has been forced to do things they didn't want to do  NonZealot | 08/10/09
So when Apple dropped the price of the iMac...  msalzberg | 08/10/09
LOL  NonZealot | 08/10/09
An event cannot be "pretty much" unprecedented.  msalzberg | 08/11/09
You are so good at being wrong!  NonZealot | 08/11/09
I respectfully disagree.  msalzberg | 08/11/09
Got a problem for you, Zealot...  vulpine@... | 08/14/09
You got a problem, alright.  rtk | 08/14/09
FUD Alert: Security updates are available to ALL PCs  kvkalidindi | 08/16/09
Iphone is a phone silly Mac freaks  Randalllind | 08/10/09
People make money to write crap like this?  non-sequitur | 08/10/09
So how much did you get paid?  James T. Kirk | 08/10/09
Hey !  Jkirk3279 | 08/18/09
Stop!  robertmro | 08/10/09
RE: Is Apple suffering because it has outgrown its Reality Distortion Field?  Mabrick | 08/10/09
I had to laugh at this one......  dave95. | 08/10/09
what is YOUR argument against it?  pupkin_z | 08/10/09
Re: what is YOUR argument against it?  dave95. | 08/10/09
What's there to argue against?  oncall | 08/10/09
Beware  Mashman | 08/21/09
Nice opinion piece, Adrian.  James T. Kirk | 08/10/09
RE: Is Apple suffering because it has outgrown its Reality Distortion Field?  jaygenuine | 08/10/09
RE: Is Apple suffering because it has outgrown its Reality Distortion Field  Andrew Sheppard | 08/10/09
Apple's problem isn't Apple  odcchaz | 08/10/09
Except that ...  Lunatic59 | 08/10/09
RE: Is Apple suffering because it has outgrown its Reality Distortion Field?  Richard B | 08/10/09
What lovely rage inflamining story... yet another for ZDNET  xXSpeedzXx | 08/10/09
Well said!! Even microsoft's car stereo SYNC utility is not ipod friendly  HypnoToad72 | 08/15/09
How is Apple suffering?  matthew_maurice | 08/10/09
Apple does not own high end computing, LOL  eggmanbubbagee@... | 08/10/09
Apple own the high end computer market?????  Mac_444 | 08/13/09
Hehe, "RDF" that's awesome  User 13 | 08/10/09
Indeed there was an RDF  amywohl | 08/12/09
RE: Is Apple suffering because it has outgrown its Reality Distortion Field?  bb_apptix | 08/13/09
Example of RDF  Texasglide@... | 08/13/09
A quick search...  Jkirk3279 | 08/18/09

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