Publisher

[davemike]

Affinity Publisher would have been the clincher, designers using adobe - illustrator/photoshop/indesign were waiting for the final reason to move, Publisher would have been the "final solution", instead of concerting all your efforts to publisher you would have brought out "Publisher" even 1 or 2 years after the others you could have captured the whole market.

[SrPx]

Oh, don't worry, I know you wish the best for Serif, they (Affinity, Serif) will catch up. Sooner or later. Adobe will always be there, though, so is a tough competition no matter what. But the small/mid business, and freelance market, I'm betting Affinity at least will get a very large portion of it (am even betting a considerable chunk of large companies also will, those can cut costs dramatically, per the many seats money saving. It's HUGE if you make even some basic estimation.), if not doing so already (but a lot more growth to come, IMO). Plus, the releasing pace in other brands is WAY slower, specially considering the size/resources of some, and buggy releases they often make. Or the almost per year update of others, if not plain stagnation. 

Nothing real to complain here, unless there would be very particular reasons to do so, totally unrelated to the actual technical quality of both brands (Affinity/Adobe) and more to a very different motivation...