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And the Corona SDK makes programmers use ONLY LUA! It's a conspiracy! Igor, get me my tinfoil hat!

a cross platform development environment to write in, you're welcome to it... but it isn't recognized by Apple, and will not be adequate when you actually want to release your app, unless (possibly)

This assumption is not correct. The AppStore terms changed quite often recently.
There are quite a few cross platform solutions for iOS and Android development e.g. look at: http://www.anscamobile.com/corona/

"Are they really making money off it?"

Yes. I don't really hang with people that make game rip offs...usually pretty serious apps. Me? My background is in music and psychology (did both professionally for years), and I have two apps I've been working on that won't really be useful for the masses, but would be for specific individuals (i.e., management / roster tool as well as translating a few psychological instruments to iOS...which ironically, one of mine I sold YEARS ago on Hypercard and it sold VERY well...and I am still legally the sole licensee of this test in electronic form).

The one friend I knew did medical instrumentation, and he wrote his in a flash translator...I thought it was strange the desktop version was in flash, but its what he knew. I think he used AIR to make it into a desktopable app...and a year ago, his app was pulled because of the flash background. He had the code and logic down, and rewriting in another language meant hiring someone, but if you have a working app...its far easier to rewrite because you now have a working prototype. Made his money back pretty quickly.

But yes, lots of people don't make squat. Just like in the real world. If you follow the leader instead of forging a new path yourself, you won't get noticed.

As for switching carriers...why does your carried mean anything? Get an ipad...or an itouch...you can STILL run those same apps without the phone.

BTW I don't think too many people are thinking about making millions...if they are smart. Idiots believe what they want to believe. I also know plenty of people putting food on the table with things like this...or suplimenting an already good income.

Oh yeah, and the apps I'm writing are actually crossplatform...

http://www.anscamobile.com/

Uses the Lua language...the Android side is a bit buggier, but they will get it sorted out soon enough. I don't have one of those devices, but I plan on getting one soon enough if this works out. Who knows...might actually make enough money to make it worth my while doing xplatform again (last time I did this was compiling code between the Mac and PC in the 80s...and that was a pain in the ass).

Mobile computing is on the rise, and gaming is a strong component of it. There is a toolkit that will let you program in LUA (fairly common in game engines these days) and it will generate programs for both iPhone / iPad and Android at the same time. Programming is simple and the new game engine employs physics and other gizmos.

See game release: http://blog.anscamobile.com/2010/09/theyre-here-corona-sdk-and-corona-game-edition/

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e4p_5J_bZY

This fits the bill nicely:
http://developer.anscamobile.com/

Besides... LUA is really just a layer on top of pure C.

Or Corona (http://anscamobile.com/corona/)

Was that really the intention of Apple, to get rid of all the "translators"? ie Lua -> ObjC

Here's Corona's view on this issue. I hope they're right.