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During the TED Conference this week in Long Beach, Calif., BNET's Brent Schlender asked Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates what he thought of Apple's new iPad tablet.

In a much needed antidote to the jealousy even those of us with minimal tech skills harbor toward people who have made a fortune inventing iPhone applications, many disgruntled developers are venting about how unfair it is that their apps didn't make it into the Apple store.

When the story came out that Apple had rejected delayed approval of the Google Voice application, the initial reaction from the media was outrage. Many iPhone users were also angry. While the controversy may damage Apple's image in the public eye, the real damage could likely have occurr elsewhere - in the developer community.