When you register as a developer on the Apple site and just want to pay your 100$ for the privilage to write an Apple iphone application, you enter all your details and credit card and pass 6 screens with email verification and personal info, after all this ...
You get a screen that says your country (Israel) is not in their developer list and you will have to do everything again from scratch by hand on a PDF form that should be faxed to them !
All this after knowing in the first screen that you were from the country that is not supported... why bother take me through all the hassle of online form filling and validations.
This is from a company that is worth more than most oil companies !