Hey, you can justify the price all you want.
I think we sell about one Mini/month.
Which is almost double the number of iPad Pro's we sell, and on par with the iPad Air. In contrast, we sell about 10x the number of $329 iPads as the mini and iPad Pro combined. iPad buyers care about price way more than Mac buyers. I would venture to guess that 95% of
all iPad users surf the web, check their facechatsnapbook, play solitaire, and nothing else. Apple has just figured out how to sell them an overpriced, over-spec'd thing with which to do it.