All the merchants that accept bitcoin are not going to wake up and just start taking Litecoin or any other coin. They would probably just watch for a while before making any decision.
Exactly, in fact there are many altcoins out there which better than bitcoin as a payment system i don't know why maybe less popular or something. Well i usually top up my mobile phone using bitcoin about 2 dollars or so but now not anymore due to the confirmation time is very slow and high fee also i don't wanna be a burden to the blockchain. So for this reason i think we shoud not making small transaction cause bitcoin isn't suited for doing so. I hope this scaling issue will be fixed soon.