Apple is not restricting the websites that its users can go to. A user can go to any website on an iMac, MacBook, iPhone, iPod, or iPad. What Jobs is talking about is the programs in the App Store. The App Store in iTunes is not going to sell porno applications. Walgreens does not sell hardcore porno magazines, but I don't feel like they are restricting my freedom when I go there to buy a tube of toothpaste.
Totally aware of that. :o) I wouldn't buy a Mac for other reasons. My ex wife works at an Apple store and I sent her some standard video format file she couldn't open on her Mac...it's things like that .
Methinks Jobs has built a nice strawman and now is mercilessly beating it to a pulp. There are no "porno applications" anywhere - on a PC, on a Mac or on a mainframe if that's your thing :-) The closest to that I can think of is some strip poker game that I saw back around, I think, 1985. Porn today is delivered not in a 35 kB application - it is delivered on a 25 GB Blu-Ray disk. I can't imagine what kind of "porn application" one can even write, let alone sell.
So this Jobs' chest-beating is just for show. Apple's products don't restrict anyone from browsing a porn website, or transferring a bunch of porn audiom video and photos through iTunes, or emailing them around... Some comments in this thread say "Thank you, Saint Steve, for saving our children from the awful scourge of porn" - but they are wrong. Children will get *more* porn on iPad, if only because the screen is larger :-) I don't think there is a technological solution to that, short of going Luddite *plus* burning all libraries in vicinity.