# What Killed Adobe Flash? What exactly must have happen?

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**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 7, 2019, 9:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-killed-adobe-flash-what-exactly-must-have-happen/640428 "2019-09-07T09:09:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![sofbud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@sofbud](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sofbud)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2019, 9:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-killed-adobe-flash-what-exactly-must-have-happen/640428/1 "2019-09-07T09:09:11Z")

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The iPhone didn’t necessarily kill flash, but it made the fact clear that consumers were rapidly moving away from browsing the internet on their computers, to other devices such as phones, tablets and TVs.

Adobe made money selling the expensive Flash creative suite, which web designers would only continue to buy if flash player had a high market penetration.

In order for flash to live on, Adobe would have had to port their proprietary flash player to every single internet enabled device, and then beg/bribe every single company to include flash pre-installed on their devices.

The business model was clearly unstainable, so Adobe killed it.

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**Author:** ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2019, 7:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-killed-adobe-flash-what-exactly-must-have-happen/640428/2 "2019-09-08T07:31:41Z")

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Quite the first post here! Welcome 😀

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**Author:** ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2019, 11:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-killed-adobe-flash-what-exactly-must-have-happen/640428/3 "2019-09-08T23:46:56Z")

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This thread contains more details: [Something I've been thinking about Flash's untimely death...](http://forum.kirupa.com/t/something-ive-been-thinking-about-flashs-untimely-death/633860)

😀

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**Author:** ![senocular](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/senocular/32/7217_2.png) [@senocular](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/senocular)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2019, 6:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-killed-adobe-flash-what-exactly-must-have-happen/640428/4 "2019-09-09T18:13:45Z")

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Copy pasta: [https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/627eyy/what\_killed\_adobe\_flash/dfle835/](https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/627eyy/what_killed_adobe_flash/dfle835/)

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**Author:** ![krilnon](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/krilnon/32/34_2.png) [@krilnon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/krilnon)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2019, 8:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-killed-adobe-flash-what-exactly-must-have-happen/640428/5 "2019-09-09T20:23:01Z")

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So what you’re saying is we should moderate this thread out of existence?

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**Author:** ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2019, 5:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-killed-adobe-flash-what-exactly-must-have-happen/640428/6 "2019-09-10T05:17:12Z")

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The spammer has certainly been modded out 🔨

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**Author:** ![senocular](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/senocular/32/7217_2.png) [@senocular](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/senocular)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2019, 12:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-killed-adobe-flash-what-exactly-must-have-happen/640428/7 "2019-09-10T12:37:34Z")

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> This user is suspended until Sep 9, 3019 11:00 am.

lol

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**Author:** ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2019, 12:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-killed-adobe-flash-what-exactly-must-have-happen/640428/8 "2019-09-10T12:52:07Z")

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I figure a thousand years is enough time for him to have learned his lesson.

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**Author:** ![TheCanadian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@TheCanadian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/TheCanadian)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2019, 6:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-killed-adobe-flash-what-exactly-must-have-happen/640428/9 "2019-09-10T18:30:10Z")

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Haha 😂

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**Author:** ![AurturoJane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@AurturoJane](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/AurturoJane)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2019, 6:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-killed-adobe-flash-what-exactly-must-have-happen/640428/10 "2019-09-10T18:36:06Z")

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wait is it just me or i have seen this thread before!!

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**Author:** ![senocular](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/senocular/32/7217_2.png) [@senocular](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/senocular)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 12:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-killed-adobe-flash-what-exactly-must-have-happen/640428/12 "2019-11-13T12:53:04Z")

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