'Cos allmost none of high tech devices officially distributed in russia (or at least has russian language support), in russia it's common practic, when community (or several users) hire programmer, or give him the device as a gift to make necessary changes. Also sometimes developing sponsored by small distributors, who interested in increasing sales of adopted devices.

But in other countries seems it's not so popular.

Also as I see average age of EE users is about 30-40 years old, teachers and so on... They happy with current functional and don't looking for improovement.