Apple BETA devices around the world have been receiving the error “Activation Required”. Apple has placed an expiry date on their BETA versions, this forces users who are still running BETAs of iOS 7 to update to the current version.

WTF? You said it was BETA.

Still, you're blaming other people for your fault. You're developer. You were recognizing what will be happen with BETA OS in worst case, and you just didn't prepared for it. Dedicated testing machine is required equipment for BETA OS. You didn't bought it because you treated it optional equipment. That's right for regular development, but not for BETA OS. So you thrown your primary phone into the risk of the test machine.

If you're work for a company, blame your boss who forced you to use your personal device. If you work for yourself, then blame yourself.

And welcome to Android. You don't need to worry about Apple's parenting, but instead, you need plenty of different devices for test. Good luck.