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> There was a competing bicycle dealership next door (Apple) that one day began selling motorized vehicles--expensive but attractively styled cars with their innards hermetically sealed, so that how they worked was something of a mystery.

In retrospect, I think Neal was referring to a specific aspect of Apple's products when writing 'hermetically sealed', but I view almost any Apple product, as a whole, that way. (Apple doesn't want you to service them yourself, or know how the software works.) Even after 20 years, some things never change.



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