[shiburizu]

Lots of applications used it. I recall Wacom having some art applications made with it, I remember League of Legends used it in the early days. The link you sent also specified quite a few uses.

But most notably there is a focus on desktop/mobile applications when the real dichotomy ended up being web/mobile applications and a ton of internet companies were dumping money into their own frameworks at the time because who wants to pay rent to Adobe? If artists don't want to pay for their proprietary crapware, imagine tech companies.

AIR was yet another closed platform to throw on the pile of failed closed platforms.