The Gift Card Loophole: Why Apple's $200/Month AI Tax Is Actually Your Fault

You're scrolling through Reddit at 2am, and you see it — a thread about buying US region Apple IDs with gift cards to access GPT Pro for $20/month instead of $200/month. You think: "That's genius. I'm doing that." Then you open the App Store, create a new account, buy a $100 gift card from Raise, and spend 3 hours jumping through Apple's verification hoops. Here's the uncomfortable truth nobody in that thread told you: you're not hacking Apple. You're participating in a grey market that Apple...