AT&T has treated the iPhone special before, IMHO it's very likely this was due to contractual obligations with AT&T. The key difference with Blackberry is that

AT&T has treated the iPhone special before, IMHO it's very likely this was due to contractual obligations with AT&T. The key difference with Blackberry is that there is no central Blackberry App Store — regardless of what AT&T thinks, stopping apps from existing on that platform is pretty much impossible. http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/07/28/att-om-iphone http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/07/28/att-om-iphone