Do people really think ETH will become the next bitcoin?
Personally I'm interested in other projects that do something different.
Care to elaborate on this? Ether is not meant to replace Bitcoin. It's the gas that powers transactions on the public Ethereum chain.
I agree. Ether is supposedly different to bitcoin, but people still compare these two. We can't really blame bitcoin for its slow transaction speed because there are lot of people who are using it compared to ethereum. Ethereum, on the other hand, is designed for fast transactions. It is not fair to say that bitcoin will be replaced by ethereum soon because of the transaction speed.
Indeed, they have both different specialties to one another. And bitcoin will always be a mother of all altcoins, So ethereum will always be next into bitcoin if bitcoin will be gone in unexpected moment.