[Dyvim]

Of course others would cry foul if MS did it. When you have a monopoly, it is illegal to use your monopoly to help gain a competitive advantage in another market (e.g. Microsoft trying to use their monopoly on desktop OS to give them an advantage in the browser space). That's the law.

Since RIM doesn't have a monopoly, they can use their presence in one market to achieve a competitive advantage in another. Stinks for WM users who use (or might have used) Iris, but it's not illegal.

I think that Apple should be considered as having a monopoly in the mp3 and possibly the digital music download markets and therefore should be held accountable for anti-competitive actions in other markets (e.g. smartphone market), but currently that's not the case.