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I sort of assumed that the vast number of hand-me-down (or second hand) iPhones would have pretty much eliminated the market for iPhone Touches. I guess there's still some demand but Apple has never been that big on creating products for niches.

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It also feels like there are enterprisey uses case for it, stuff like museum tour guides etc [0]. But I can't imagine that market is so large.

[0]: http://www.paratsolutions.com/museums-destinations/

Putting an iPod Touch in a rugged case with a barcode scanner is a really good way to approach warehouse inventory management and other scanner use cases.

I worked in the field services space - sending people places to do things around 2008-2012 programming Windows CE ruggedized devices. The market was large enough even around 2011 for there still to be plenty of jobs for Windows CE programmers even though MS abandoned the platform with VS 2008.

The market has to be much larger now.

Cheapest way to get into iOS development also.

This is what I thought too. I generally develop React native apps on an Android device + iOS sim. Then before launch I borrow an iPhone from a friend or coworker for a quick test. This is a nice entry point to a physical iOS device

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