If they can call putting a free version of IE on Windows illegal, then I can easily see how this would be illegal product tying*. It seems so to me.

Heck, a hackintosh would be my only choice because I will never pay apple's ridiculous hardware prices. Interesting, though I can't say I heard of it before now though.

CR
*I'm well aware that such rulings occurred in different courts, some in different countries.