Now we're getting somewhere. As with the iphone, meeting present needs is paramount. Steve Jobs never sold the iphone on the basis of the next iphone being better. It was always on the basis of what the (then) current iphone could do for its users.

If Ripple does useful things now, and most importantly you can communicate that in a way that is compelling and comprehensible to the audience, great. Right now you haven't even gotten past people being confused about what the term ripple even means.

This is not limited to this thread (or countless other essentially identical threads). Beyond this forum, I've talked to a lot of other people both online and offline who really have no understanding of what ripple does or how it benefits them at all.