I have HW applications that uses BLE i.e. Bluetooth 4.0. I would like to get it working in Apple products such as iOS or OSX. My friend said that earlier developers had to be pay at least some 20k USD + margin of profits to get their hardware device accepted by Apple. The services have online frontend and specific hardware that are supposed be connected via BLE to phones/laptops.
What is the cost currently to develop BLE services for Apple?