I like Apple products. But I hate Apple. I bought a mac mini and an iPhone 3g when it came out. I loved it. I bought everything just to make apps, and I did it. But I learn one thing: Apple doesn't care about me, only about the money that I bring them. Everyone always says how great their Customer Support is, everyone that is not a developer. They do not care about your problem, they will not try to help you. No info…
You bought products, you're a customer. You make products, you're not a customer. You need them more than they need you (unless you're talking about roadblock problems for an insignificant portion of developers.
You are also forgetting that if it wasn't for the developers that created the content in the AppStore the iPhone would have been just a phone like all the others.