lets understand marketing
infrastructure is the key for investors and businesses to adopt a coin
I run a business and as yet my customers do not understand crypto
If i was to offer them crypto i would select a coin that has a strong infrastructure and investors
btc and ltc both have enterprises supporting this, why is there asic machines on sale if the market was not there, why is there atm's being built if the markets not there
please provide me with another coin that has the infrastructure to support my customers cash exchange and a network that is very hard to fall down like other altcoins have after a few months
This is very true, relatively speaking, LTC is the only other ledger that is at least significantly secure, especially with ASICs (excluding the possible pool issues). Frankly, the security already established for Bitcoin and the growing security for Litecoin are going to be difficult to beat (and that's what it'll take to overtake either coin). It seems that people keep forgetting that the alternate crypto-currency scene is a fringe of an already fairly fringe scene; so what is great for them isn't going to necessarily be great for a majority of others.
It surprises me that so many people here think that an anon coin or a coin with a ton of nifty features is the bee's knees. Last time I checked, using those other protocols still requires a significant amount of technical knowledge or familiarity. Do we honestly think the majority of people would look for something like that as the alternative to bank-owned fiat? As I see it, the place for improvement is not in anon or new algorithms or nifty new features, but in ease of use and ready accessibility (such as in a improved GUI experience like someone had already mentioned).
However, infrastructure is significantly more limited than it is with BTC and a lot of other alts are quickly catching up. LTC still has a sizable edge, but that gap is closing rather than expanding.