Apple is not lost... It will be maybe better in the future.. see article which was done with Harry (one of the person in the core team of Bytecoin) and one sentence about iPhone at the end of the article :

http://bitcoinwarrior.net/2014/08/chat-harry-bytecoin-anonymous-egalitarian-cryptocoin/

Well, nice to know that apple isn't lost.
The time will show us if the devs are write in their view on future. IMHO, they think right

Satoshi was involved in this project. Huh

I am quite surprised! TBH it make sense why Crypto Note technology provides complete anonymity.