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Much of the Apple iPhone community is in an uproar over Apple knifing the Google Voice baby. While the debate rages as to whose fault it is – AT&T, or Apple’s – it ultimately makes Apple look bad. And it has made many developers scratch their head and re-evaluate their commitment to Apple’s handheld device.

Apple’s got a good thing going with the iPhone apps written so far, but they would be smart to remember their history. RIM CEO JIm Balsille offers this reminder:

“About 10 years ago there was a well-known PDA company with 40,000 apps and 100,000 developers,” he said. “We had just one application, which turned out to be a very good application. And you see what happened.”

Think it couldn’t happen? When some of your brightest stars in the development community feel like this, you better bet that it can.

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