[lelandfe]

Flash game sites were still huge and popular after Adobe’s purchase, so clearly it did not kill it. If you mean something like that the acquisition started the death… that’s a hard position to argue against, since it’s subjective. Perhaps you’re right.

[phamilton]

When flash started to fade for games, many developers moved over to adtech where their skills were still valued. Flash continued for a few years to power ads as well as shims around other videos that would collect data and even trigger secondary ad auctions.

[mgaunard]

Adobe had competing products mostly based on open standards. They shut down many active product lines and merged what was left into Adobe AIR, which didn't take off.

[lelandfe]

AIR and Silverlight and co. was a weird moment in the web’s history