The fact that hackers are a minority is certainly true. However, you could just as easily argue that, as a proportion of society, doctors are an insignificant, irrelevant minority. Except if you need one. The point being that hackers are a small but necessary component of technological society. Hackers are the innovators that glean ideas and innovate the way that monolithic corporations and marketing campaigns cannot. It is their individual desire and dreaming and personal commitment that keeps those four guys (three of whom, a few generations back, founded both Apple and Microsoft) innovating and generating world-changing ideas. While locking down the iPhone seems like a trivial and microcosmic example, it was also simple hacking of other phone systems (ones based on analog tones and physical switches) that lead to the breeding ground (Homebrew, anyone?) of ideas that made our current techno-fetish lifestyles so fashionable. If we continue to close the systems that offer the most promise for innovation, then the hackers lose out on a new playground, but all the rest of us (who apparently neither know or care about the hackers) lose the fruits of their labors.