max. supply of ether is now 105,061,446.3125 , but according this article , is there going to be a max. supply 'forever' ? 
This is starting to get serious, the supply is now close to what Vitalik proposed as "maximum" months back. Hodlers will lose confidence in ETH, if the maximum supply is now decided and coded.
Adopting a maximum supply of ether coins would undoubtedly render Ethereum more attractive to investors.
Ethereum was created as fuel for smart contracts. Now this path for development is clearly abandoned. Ethereum devs don't care about smart contracts anymore. Only pressing issue is how to preserve the value of their ethereum investments. They want to promote it as store of value. The problem is as store of value bitcoin is unbeatable!
I do not agree bitcoin is unbeatable for now. At this time if you want to buy apples with bitcoin , the apples become rotten if you wait the confirmation of bitcoin transaction
. If you use ether you can buy them in few seconds. And this without talking about contracts.