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I don't think this will have (or is meant to have) any effect on professional applications. This is just for the educational and cool factor.

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Right now, yeah. But if this tech trend (miniature, low power, cheap, commodity) continues and we can run our apps on them ... it might be a game changer. No?

Hu no. "Low power" , "cheap" and "commodity" already describes retail computers since almost 30 years.

Why do so many people want to see a higher purpose in any fun experiment? Can't it just be that, a fun and cool hobby project?

Just for a different perspective, I grew up in a very low income household, and the Pi was the only computer I was able to convince my mum to get me as an early teenager. "Cheap" is relative, and I disagree that the Pi wasn't a big step forward in terms of price on the very low-end.

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