This is the road ahead for XD

[Gabriel Kärrby]

Well…thank you again Adobe. First we build solutions with Adobe Edge Animate…and you say: "nah, we're not doing this anymore". No you are doing the same with Muse. Thousands (probably more) of companies, like my own, are developing solutions for their clients with Muse…but you don't care…you just pull the plug and move on...and don't give a s#€t. I wish there was a way to make you responsible, financially, but I'm sure there isn't. All those projects like XD, Dimensions (btw a big joke), Portfolio, Spark, etc... Just drop it. There is now way in hell that I, and I hope more people than I reason like I do, will try any of your idiot projects, that's just risking my reputation.  What you don't understand, or perhaps just don't care about, is that we create promises to our customers based on what you promise your tools can create. With Edge I had 20+ app solutions delivered to a big industrial company, with a yearly revenue of more that 10 billion euros per year, I could do nothing more than tell them that Adobe decided to cancel the product and that there was nothing for me to do. Of course I could have rebuilt it in Flash Professional, but who should pay for that? Certainly not my customer. I pray that competition will have you going Quark, you would surely deserve it.

[Dan Rodney]

All my years of work in technology have taught me that apps & technology come and go. Companies create new products and some of those succeed and some fail. That's life in the technology field. I have a saying: "The only constant in technology is change".

I agree that Adobe has not had a good track record for the things you mention, but I do think XD is different. Adobe seems very dedicated to it and it has a chance at succeeding. It's different than Edge Animate and Muse, which—to be honest—I thought were bad from day 1 and was not at all surprised when they failed.

I know Adobe is trying, and I applaud them for that.... but I share in what I think is your frustration... that they'd understand the market better and what we need/want.