I was planning to get a developer account and an iPad, and then try to write apps using Scheme (or maybe other tools that use languages that are, shall we say,

I was planning to get a developer account and an iPad, and then try to write apps using Scheme (or maybe other tools that use languages that are, shall we say, more flexible than Objective-C)... I am now glad that I didn't do that yet; these recent developments make iPhone/iPad development a lot less attractive to me.