For those who have not forgotten:
"Affinity Designer is available for open beta testing right now, with Affinity Photo due very soon and Affinity Publisher launching in 2015."
https://affinity.serif.com/blog/welcome-to-affinity/
So "earliest end of 2017" meaning not before sometime in 2018, means three years later than originally anticipated.
I'm well aware of how software, particularly if not hacked together, often takes considerably longer than anticipated, but also given that supposedly the big thing about the Affinity software line is, that it's all built on the same engine, and only has application/task specific UI, one wonders how much developer resources were side tracked with the iOS and Windows variants.
Thankfully I don't have to do much publishing to do, that I can't either get done with Pages or Affinity Designer, but I want to be able to leave Adobe permanently in the dustbin of history, and that's not happening, until we have Designer, and maybe a Webdesign app based on it...