Ethereum vs All Ethereum's Competition: What is the difference?

[l_i_g_h_t]

So Ethereum is the first one to do the smart contract and they have an extremely high value coin. I've been researching a ton of alt coins and when I go to their web page almost all of them talk about smart contracts and decentralized apps, etc, etc, the same stuff that Ethereum does.

What am I missing here? Why would a company looking to develop an app use one of these random new companies over Ethereum?

Is Ethereum probably gonna survive while all these clones eventually fade away?

[ikkyu]

This is a good talk to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja9D0kpksxw

Ethereum has some problems with scalability and also some problems with the security of the Solidity language for writing smart contracts. Maybe they can be resolved with future updates of Ethereum, but there are also other people who want to try out their own solutions. Ethereum wasn't the first, there were smart contracts on the bitcoin blockchain too.

[l_i_g_h_t]

Thanks for the info.

Gonna watch that link.