Madobe once closely guarded the Flash player code base, yet their approach rapidly shifted to total abandonment in the early 2010s after realising that the chan

Madobe once closely guarded the Flash player code base, yet their approach rapidly shifted to total abandonment in the early 2010s after realising that the chance to have a presence on modern smartphones had already sailed. All the issues that followed were symptoms of neglect. A similar lack of comittment is also what doomed AIR which had a chance to succeed - after all there was a tonne of existing content waiting to be ported for native release by eager developers already familiar with the AS/Flex stack. Adobe dropped the ball hard by moving the R&D to Bangalore during the most critical time period and things went south really fast. By the time the product managed to stablise most developers have moved on.