Any conceivable replacement wasn’t ready to go either
Apple wanted to block the walled garden of Flash for their own under any pretense possible for control.
Flash was far from perfect. It’s still interesting to see new devs discovering what it could do 15-25 years ago and what is comparably mainstream when it exited.. up until now.
> Apple wanted to block the walled garden of Flash for their own under any pretense possible for control.
Just when it got to the point Flash could transpile to native iOS apps, Apple banned transpilation for six months or so at which point the DOJ was rumored to be investigating. By the time the ban was lifted there was virtually nothing being developed in Flash.
Of course none of this would have been worth doing without also banning developers from mentioning, linking or communicating competing prices in apps or to app users to really isolate the gacha gamers from other spending funnels.
Thanks Steve /s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughts_on_Flash