To start with, we should know that bitcoin is use to invest and ripple is use for currency ,I think it depend on what you need from them important but ripple is full of risk for me.
There was a time when bitcoin is the ultimate currency and with time and more users ,it is impossible to see bitcoin as a currency which can be used on a daily basis,the higher transactions charges made micro transactions impossible and hence the dream of having a currency vanished but i am not getting ripple instead of bitcoin.