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This story is more about personal stupidity. They buy a ton of new Apple products then lie to themselves saying it's for "business". It shouldn't be news that most devs dont make much on AppStore apps. $5,000 isn't bad from indie apps. Honestly, I doubt even large corporations spend $200,000 to create an iPhone app.

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> Honestly, I doubt even large corporations spend $200,000 to create an iPhone app.

I just don't understand how you manage it. I develop apps for large corporations, and you're right: most of them aren't spending $200k - and the ones that are spending $200k are getting serious software and a full team (designers, PMs, developers, testers, etc).

Although the story is a little unclear: it talks about $200k in "lost income and savings", which is a little different to putting money up front.

Is this not perhaps a function of the Apple culture's obsession with "feel" and also the app store review system.

There might be a fear (rational or not) that not testing a particular device could lead to 1 star reviews due to it not "feeling right".

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