The Ethereum is under active development. It also has good support from the community. So it is good.
Full disclosure, I buy ETH and will continue to do so, but not with any money that I need. It is a gamble of course, no one knows what the future holds. I buy because it intrigues me.
That being said, there was an article from The Wall Street Journal, Aug 5, 2014
BitBeat: Ethereum Presale Hits $12.7 Million Tally
To quote Joseph Lubin: "Mr. Lubin said third parties are currently building "hundreds" of prospective applications on top of the Ethereum platform."
That was nearly two years ago. There must be a bunch of applications out now with that many under development.
P.S.- My account says Newbie, which I will always be since I do not post much because of the pile of insulting users here, some of the dumbest smart people I know are on this forum. I have been here for nearly a couple of years.