So, no subway or fast travel?

Do you understand what “comparing” means?

In comparison with Windows and iOS, Mac OS is a paradigm of respecting the user. Of course that’s only because the bar is firmly embedded on Earth’s inner core.

I didn’t, the article did by paraphrasing Reagan. And hyperbole is a perfectly valid figure of speech anyway.

And thematically I would have gone for something evoking the actual Berlin wall: