Aeon is a shaping up to be a testbed for Monero. It is working on pruning the tranaction size down as the ring signatures dont scale as well, but work just fine for now.

Aeon is cheap compared to Monero and i think it will provide some good value with making the technology mobile friendly.

At the moment is is very developer focused but the open source is alive and thats what i like about Monero and AEON. I expect Monero and AEON to both have bright futures in the digital cash game.