I wouldn't say poor. Adobe had its own creative-software empire to up-keep. Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, and its web-authoring products gave it enormous influence over creative professionals and while Macromedia's Dreamweaver and Flash were serious competitors in web design and interactive media. Adobe needed the missing monopoly cards; Flash, Fireworks and Dreamweaver were them.
Flash was security ridden yes, Flash required a plugin, yes. Flash I don't think supported AppleOS at the time, these could of all been solved but I would agree that to refactor the software would of been an expensive take. Jobs + HTML5, WebGL, JS all had entered the ring and finished the blow.
I miss it. growing up with the internet in 2003, 2010's was the end of the wild world web. 2020's was the era of walled gardens for which we now have LLM's for the theme park and we're now entering 2030 where the internet is on fire, creativity is now wrung between Yes Ai and No Ai.
Hopefully 2040 should bring world peace. One would hope.
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