Flash/animate added html5 export in 2012, five years after the iPhone was released and the writing was on the wall. But another big difference is that Flash was

Flash/animate added html5 export in 2012, five years after the iPhone was released and the writing was on the wall. But another big difference is that Flash was widely pirated and ran on the devices that everyone had (PCs.) A similarly accessable authoring tool would need to run on mobile and be cheaply available. I also think that mobile devices are simply not as good for creative work as PCs (mice/keyboards) are. The only way to fit lots of information through a smartphone is to take a video. It cannot be used by amateur programmers nearly as effectively. The special sauce wasn't just flash; the special sauce was the PC as a creative platform.