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Because Apple Said So.™[0] [0]: https://www.cnet.com/news/steve-jobs-letter-explaining-apples-flash-distaste/ https://www.cnet.com/news/steve-jobs-letter-explaining-apple... Some of the big name features of the new Web standards near the time of Flash's demise were able to replace many things that used to require Flash. You had <audio> and <video> to replace Flash to for embedding media. You had <canvas> to be able to draw arbitrary stuff with another ECMAScript known as JavaScript. The Web replaced Flash.