People aren't saying they're going to build an iPhone-killer out of this. They're saying it's a good platform for messing around and prototyping wacky ideas, i

People aren't saying they're going to build an iPhone-killer out of this. They're saying it's a good platform for messing around and prototyping wacky ideas, ideas which might end up with potentially for being turned into real products (with 'real' production values, technology, supply chains, etc.) Of course people aren't going to write a couple of programs and then sell an 8-bit microcontroller off the shelf, but as a platform for experimentation - that's what it's good for.