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Internet of Things devices are basically whatever niche purpose you have. In my case for example, I was thinking of doing a Pi to power an notification screen on my compulator tower but since it can't run Windows and RT at the time wasn't a usable SKU, that didn't happen. But with the new Pi and Windows 10, I can add in a notification screen onto the front of my future tower that shows the time, possibly control an audio amp's power supply, showing my notifications of course and maybe a picture slide show. It'll be used as a fancy display piece for pretty freaking cheap too.
The other possibility I might look into to see if it'll be feasible with Windows 10 RT and the Pi 2 is using it to power my baby PC I'll be making for my car soon to be a media center/infotainment system. $35 is cheaper than almost $100 for the mini-ITX board and AMD APU and uses little power. I don't know about that though, because I do need it x86 based for desktop programs like itunes so if someone wants to stream music from their iphone in my car, they can use itunes to do that.
The fun thing with the Raspberry Pi is and kind frustrating as well is finding a purpose for it. It's such a niche device that can power complex simple things like smart vending machines or fancy display systems or even a cheap HTPC.
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