BItt, you're failing to see the point and I'm not sure you have one of your own but to say that Apple is somehow cheating you (or other consumers) by not offering Flash.

Why on earth would you add up all of YouTube's video and use that as a counter example against my point? YouTube is ONE site. It doesn't matter how many terabytes of video they have. It represents ONE use of Flash, which I mentioned, a video-service site. The majority of Flash usage, OTHER than for video-service sites, is for ads. Popular video service sites are all making or will be making their content accessible without Flash. Not all of them use Flash now and not all of them have ever used Flash. Apple's site has never used Flash for its video. None of the porn sites I visit stream video in Flash either.

Apple however are not limiting choice. It's your choice to buy or not to buy one of their products. You may want a notebook in Farrari red. Tough cookies if you also want it to be a MacBook.

The market is not important to you. It's important to Apple. It's important to every company big or small. It's the only metric that's measurable relating to what we're discussing. If you have never worked for yourself then I suppose you might not be ready to accept this reality.

Your line of arguing is wearing thin on me and I'm done responding to your points because they're not relevant to what I've been talking about. If you want a different type of argument, you should look for the next room over. But you interjected into a discussion that was ongoing to try and push some agenda of "choice" that has no bearing on anything but trying to dismiss Apple as too controlling. I've already said I agree with you there, they're controlling, and often, too controlling.

The iPhone is going to fail because it doesn't have Flash. I'll record that for later reference...