iPhone economics

This is a short vent.
I found this article about the unlocking of the iPhone. Essentially, the iPhone has been hacked by various people who can now use it on other networks than the one it was meant to, AT&T. You can now pay various people to do the same to your iPhone.
This person’s critique is that instead of paying them, we should donate to the “iPhone dev team” that did all the hard work of hacking into it and reverse engineering. They deserve the support more than these other people charging money.

And yet, I can’t help but think that if anyone deserves the money it would be Apple because they actually did the hardest work of all to bring the thing into creation.