That sounds pretty unlikely. Why would they respond to a an issue that's already public with a move that would generate even more bad press? You know that right after that, you would see "Apple to Dev: All your revenues are belong to us" as the first item on the HN front page.

That depends on how you are looking at it. From Apples point of view this might look a bit shady, corporate account, private name, lots of changes. The app may be great but on Apples financial screens it's a mere blip.

If the OP had done his homework a bit better this whole issue would have never existed in the first place.

He's only acting like this now because his savings have run out.

BigCo (including Apple) eventually will pay, I'm sure they will. But if you start to make waves then all bets are off, it might work to your advantage, it might not. I would not go that route until I had tried a bunch of others, such as trying to get someone a bit higher up in the pecking order to look at it and break the gridlock.