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Harry, I think you are missing my point. When you buy an Apple computer, you are not getting with it the best components available on the market. You are getting a Jobs-imposed compromise. Jobs predetermines what is acceptable in a computer for you. (Dell is similar.)
Jobs has determined that Flash is not good for you, so you don't get the option of ordering an Apple device with Flash. Either you buy what Apple is willing to let you buy or you don't buy Apple. Apple doesn't have to give you the best even if they are charging for the best.
As for us being able to design a product to what we think the best is, perhaps we can't outside of building our own PC. But once we get to a world that has competition, we also don't have to sit back and have a Steve Jobs tell us the way to fix the iPhone antenna problem is just to hold the phone differently. (Do you think the design flaw was intentional in the sense that Jobs decided he could make an extra dollar by leaving the flaw rather than fixing it?)
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