Hope Apple is listening, it would nice if I could develop iOS apps without owning, leasing, or remotely connecting to a Mac.
You can, with a bit of leg work. There are ways of building iOS apps on Linux.
How?
Hackintoshs, its a lot of work and really buggy.
You can run Hackintosh on KVM just right away, although there are practically no 3D acceleration (unless you opt for PCI passthrough) and the performance is really tearful awful, still, it runs Simulator just fine.