The way I have understood the Turing points are that NXT is trying to make only one part Turing complete, just the part that deals with transactions. This for right now is also the most important part too. In 5 years, who knows! Ethereum wants to make everything Turing complete. Some people have stated that by Ethereum making everything Turing complete that it might have many more points of failures for hackers to take advantage of, where as with NXT focusing on making transactions Turing complete might make it more secure. Still... that is all developer speak, so I don't really know. It seems like the more open and more flexible a platform is, that it would be better, that in the long run being Ethereum. But...... Ethereum isn't here and NXT is. The best platform is the one you can actually choose and not the imaginary one. So for now NXT has a lot of time to build a user base.
Right now NXT is just a coin with aliases and messages. Not that big of a deal. But..... it aspires high and lots of developers are working on lots of projects to make NXT have any and every service that any other coin has ever made but all put into NXT. On top of that, they are working on lots of projects that haven't ever been done. The problem or blessing is that all these projects are being done by different people. Ethereum and Maidsafe each have a central team organizing everything. NXT just has a lot of people working here and there. If they pull it together, it will be awesome. I think summer of 2014 will be the real tipping point where many services have been thoroughly tested and are live. At that point, I think NXT's price will explode. But if NXT can't coordinate and get these together, it will crash. People will only be patient for so long. If NXT has the killer apps by summer and Ethereum is still just going to conferences, it bodes poorly for Ethereum and well for NXT. If buying NXT now and the summer is owned by NXT, the buyer will have got a great deal, but if NXT falls apart, it will have been a terrible buy.
Good summary of the current situation!!
NXT's big weakness is decentralised organisation
NXT's big strength is decentralised organisation
My hunch is NXT adoption will grow slowly for a while to come, then it'll explode once people appreciate the genius of BCNext's social experiment. Without 'leaders' NXT is impossible to block legally by rival 'companies' or governments, so it's on a par with bitcoin.
MaidSafe and Etherium (and RippleLabs & eMunie) are big easy to hit legal targets, and I'd expect them to spend a lot of time and resources on legal and administrative tasks, plus defensive manoeuvres to protect their company office holders. The people working on NXT will just worry about perfecting the tech
Once people fully realise NXT is the only viable decentralised 2nd gen offering its adoption will expand rapidly, and the network effect will do its thing.
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