A lot of app developers are making bucket loads of money off the iPhone, do you think they actually care that apple's advertising campaign doesn't specifically thank them? If they had some crappy line of commercials that went "Hey guys, we made this product that is basically just a console for other developers to create their own products and put them on it" do you think anyone would want it? Even though annoying catch phrases like "theres an app for that" piss people off, it still enters there pop culture vocabulary and becomes world known, that just how advertising works. And when the iPhone sells like hot cakes, obviously app devs are glad because that means more people to buy their product.
I'm not an Apple fan boy, i don't even own an iPhone/iPod touch, but your argument seemed really stupid to me and i felt like pointing it out.
EDIT: And your statement saying that if google had made their phone before Apple they'd get the same hype is pretty stupid. Of course they would, being the first to sell a new type of product is the gold mine of sales. They get money because they thought of it before any one else and had the assets to develop it, and they deserve that. That lets companies like Google know that if they can take the same idea but make it better, it'll sell great because theres already a market established for it. Thats exactly what they are doing with the Droid.
