There are two kinds of freedom. To bring up a different subject:
There is the freedom to allow you to install Flash.
There is also the freedom from the burden of Flash.
My great fear about allowing Adobe to install Flash on the iPhone is that we will, again, be stuck with a buggy de facto standard with rebellion only in designer/developer websites while the big sites still use Flash. Forcing HTML5 forces competition in a much needed area (web video), even when it's competing devices that allows only one or the other.
By all means vote with your wallet and buy something that frees and empowers you. While you might not like it, I personally like Steve's freedoms.
There is the freedom to allow you to install Flash.
There is also the freedom from the burden of Flash.
My great fear about allowing Adobe to install Flash on the iPhone is that we will, again, be stuck with a buggy de facto standard with rebellion only in designer/developer websites while the big sites still use Flash. Forcing HTML5 forces competition in a much needed area (web video), even when it's competing devices that allows only one or the other.
By all means vote with your wallet and buy something that frees and empowers you. While you might not like it, I personally like Steve's freedoms.