So much of the commentary surrounding this contoversy is analogies & thought experiments, presumably because there's not a lot of precedent for cases exactly li

So much of the commentary surrounding this contoversy is analogies & thought experiments, presumably because there's not a lot of precedent for cases exactly like this. So here's mine - Imagine that, next week, Apple releases a new service called iVoice that all but duplicates the functionality of Google Voice. Transcribes voicemail & e-mails it, provides a full web interface (probably integrated with MobileMe), and obviously integrates seamlessly into a new iPhone OS update. If this happened, would it be a significantly different issue than Windows packaging IE with an install, but not Netscape? Can you imagine the hell that would break loose if Windows decided to become an IE-only platform? I suppose the big difference is that they make the hardware too - but there's no way Dell could get away with making a hardware modification that prevented you from installing certain software. Does Apple really get to make all the rules here?