Competing with a billion CPUs doesn't sound fun. And a billion CPUs mining is what could happen if a cpu-mined coin had a mega-bubble and the entire world realized they could mine it.

... or some people decide to save on their heating costs http://listsbuzz.com/top-10-coldest-countries-in-the-world/

Well energy is cheap enough in Russia (which has the majority of the population of that list) that investment electric heaters in the form of CPUs probably wouldn't be attractive compared to natural gas or oil unless there's a megabubble anyway.

I was speaking from the perspective of a professional miner who had switched from mining BTC to a CPU coin.

Yeah, I wouldn't mind an extremely high priced XMR and a billion computers mining it at all.

An additional side-effect of a billion people each gaining small amounts of XMR is a billion potential customers for a business that accepts XMR. In the current situation, 3600 bitcoin is awarded to perhaps a few thousand professional miners per  day. The miners need to sell a portion of those BTC to cover costs. The rest is profits going to a few thousand people.

In a situation where a billion CPUs dominate XMR mining, you'd have hundreds of millions of people whose equipment and electricity costs are basically negligible sunk costs. They're just receiving XMR and they will spend it all kinds of things. A real economy. The endgame of a CPU/GPU coin is drastically different in ways few people have thought about.

The near-term game for both is the same. 99%+ speculation.

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I have already reached my long-term XMR holdings goal as a percentage of the eventual ~18.x+ million, so I am not going to support the price here at .001. If anything, I'll donate more to the XMR projects. But if we reach .0005 to .0008, it might be too tempting to resist picking up some more.
Keep in mind where we're going to be in the medium term. Look at the numbers. Bitcoin will likely have another major rally sometime around its blockhalving.

Emission:
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/702140.msg8108185#msg8108185
When bitcoin has its blockhalving in ~July 2016, XMR's emission is going to be down to ~8,000 coins per day instead of today's ~17,000.  What does that mean?

8,500 * .001 * $500 ( Let's be optimistic and say that bitcoin has recovered to $500 before it starts its next major rally.) = $4250 per day to buy every coin.

$4250? How many XMR supporters do you think it would take to dry up the entire daily supply of XMR and push its price upward during a bitcoin rally in 2016? It's simply not realistic to have a ~8,500 coin/day XMR emission and a .001 price. The price is going to go up and no one is going to be able to complain about anything because we are bumping these XMR threads every day and telling everyone exactly what's going to happen.

EDIT: Fixed numbers.

what do you think will be the price of xmr in 2016? its confusing with all those numbers

well im hoping it will be simple like 0.1/0.001/0.5. like that figures

What price should we reach to break the long term down trend that was resumed recently?