Wait.... wat. How is Monero innovative? How, being a fork of Bytecoin it can be innovative?
It was originally intended specifically as a clean relaunch to break away from the shady premine and other questionable practices (sock puppet accounts, fake claims of stores and services, etc.) associated with Bytecoin, which is exactly what it did.
The Monero project and community has since evolved to become far more innovative, as described by tacotime several posts back. I also notice that one of the Monero pools (enabled by the open source pool implementation sponsored by the core team) has now released a beautiful looking native MacOS wallet.
Pool!
Not "devs" =))
I view that as a good thing.
What matters is the strength of the community and economy.
I'd rather see a robust and decentralized community developing code and services than some central committee of developers doing everything.
In fact we have explicitly encouraged this by offering open bounties for independent developers to work on important components such as the open source pool implementation (now widely used by all cryptnote forks) and GUIs (still under development).
But I view fully-independent effort such as this new wallet as even better.
Cypherpunks write code .. so I left their money well enough alone after I figured whose it was 
