Flash died because Adobe failed in the most obvious ways--even to lay outsiders at the time. They could never be bothered to fix the pervasive performance or se

Flash died because Adobe failed in the most obvious ways--even to lay outsiders at the time. They could never be bothered to fix the pervasive performance or security issues. It started to die, slowly at first: the desktop flash blocker plugins. Then very quickly: the lack of support from mobile OS--even though those companies practically begged Adobe to get its act together. Adobe had a practical monopoly on the interactive web and blew it.