[threejay]

It's a bit naive to think that it was ever particularly easy.

[meric]

It's hard to imagine Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs working on a custom made device in a garage and selling hundreds of them to a local electronics store today, though.

[georgieporgie]

What about making a custom device in a garage and selling them over the Internet?

[jmitcheson]

They would probably get sued. By Apple ;)