To continue our fascination with the iPhone (see Aysha’s earlier post), I picked up an interesting news item pertaining to the antitrust implications of Apple’s exclusive deal with AT&A (Cingular). If this issue cropped up in Europe, I could bet a thousand horses that the EC Commission will be far more likely to clamp down on the deal and hold that the “exclusivity” agreement between Apple and AT&T violates EU competition law norms. The EC is much more intrusive than…