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No, not exactly.

"Exactly" would be if CarrierIQ sold a boxed piece of software that was fire & forget.

As it stands, CarrierIQ was a business partner with each of these companies in the implementation of the software, and so they are the initial point of leverage in figuring out what actually happened.

If CarrierIQ decides to roll over on the carriers and say "well, $carrier asked me to log all the SMS messages", well, then I'll take up a side business selling popcorn.

Except in this case the pistol was sold to be used explicitly for armed robberies.

Its like your example, in some world where Smith & Wesson explicitly stated that their guns can only fire blanks. And then, of course, this armed robbery resulted in a gun death.