I don't know where you got such an impression but I haven't "admitted" to anything like that at all. Number one, I don't know what ARDOR is going to be capable of -no one does, especially at some level of stress that will never happen-. Secondly, I have stated many times that even if  ARDOR ends up being a good release, by that time there are at least 2 dozen superior projects already in effect or in advanced state of development, all of them with a much larger use base and user projection.

As for comparing NXT/Ardor to Microsoft or Apple, you are right. Except that those are private, for profit companies, not crypto projects, whose main reason for existing is the fact that they would be decentralized. And, at least in intention, anonymous. But being centralized is a requirement for 99.99% of crypto-interested people. And they are leaving NXT/Ardor as fast as they can once they find out that the evolution of the project has been and will be towards centralization. I don't know -no one does- if the tech will have any chance competing in the real world with standard, centralized, for profit companies working on blockchain, such as IBM and hundreds of others, but that would be the natural place for Ardor/IGNIS/WHATEVER, not the crypto alt-economy world. All of this was meant to explain why this project is decisively derailed and out of the crypto loop, meaning that the old and new ("dumb"?) money will never come to it at all.