well how about if a custom firmware is release but it can only be updated with the original firmware or or 2.1, etc... anyway, it shows everyone its possible. If you don't like it, thats cool. But don't go around saying things are useless, and calling people moron's, that only really reflects on your own personal character. Who really knows what this could bring. Maybe nothing, maybe something.
Take a rock and some paint equals a pet rock. Did it do anything nope, worth anything, really no however it made millions.
"And as the inventor of the "pet rock", he suggested that the pet rock is "an ideal pet - easy and cheap, and it had a great personality" (Stern 380). Though his geological pets were only sold at $3.95 apiece, but in just a few months, Dahl had already become a millionaire (Stern 380). This commodity, that bears the name "pet", is indeed very profitable. Many entrepreneurs flooded the market with dozens of copycat rocks. Some said that, "if you find one that claims to be the 'Original Pet Rock', it is actually one of the copies" (Super70s.com). The market appeared to show a postmodern phenonmenon -- the Xerox-degree of culture. Customers were no longer able to tell which were "the originals" as they all claimed to be the one." ref.
http://individual.utoronto.ca/elaine/petrock.htm