yeah like zinga said.. the pandora thing is a hardware issue.. sony can't fix with just firmware.. sony could fix with a new battery but they would also have to redo their hardware... they would be very costly and leave everyone that doesn't want to be rail roaded into something out in the cold if they decided to discontinue support for the other hardware... the only reason to even consider doing that would be to defeat piracy of isos..
the percentage of people with a psp vs. the people with a psp and use isos is low... under 10 percent.. i know lots of people around the city with a psp ( i live in a BIG city) and not one know about homebrew or CFW.. basically they will lose alot of money to try and defeat piracy and that won't happen anyhow