It is not that Apple go out of their way to help their devs out. But buying a computer and buying a dev tool license are two different things requiring two different mindsets(think utilisation). And $500 for VS is the lowest end of the paid visual studio. Like I stated in my first post I'm not saying that they should give it away everything for free I just think that lowest end should be cheaper to give the opportunity to individual devs to make better apps.