Because you are choosing to write a contract to purchase an apple from a grocery store, it in no way allows you to determine how much the store pays for the display in produce.

@Nicholas PatrickIf you are passionate about starting an innovative tech company and know that you are going to build the next Apple, Facebook, Microsoft.... my answer would be "Perhaps you should drop out", however if you are dropping out to become a full time investor... my answer would be "Absolutely Not?"

We have a strong base with the state capital and University of Texas not going anywhere and Dell, Samsung, Apple, IBM, and many more high tech companies continue to expand here.  

We don't need that.The bad apples will try to avoid you and will be sneaky.

---------------------One final thought (sorry this is so lengthy) - while there are bad apples in every profession, it may be unwise and financially damaging to broad-brush any of them.

That isn't an apples to apples comparison.

Apples with apples, Orange's with Oranges.  

I am looking for something simple (Apple-like product).

But then again, you have folks struggling to make ends meet paying $40/mo for every iPhone in the family.

Apple's advantage is not the iphone or what it can do.