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Re:Ask HN: Why didn't anything reasonably similar take the p... by _dave on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @05:37PM (#29491484)
Because Apple Said So.™[0]

[0]: https://www.cnet.com/news/steve-jobs-letter-explaining-apple...

Some of the big name features of the new Web standards near the time of Flash's demise were able to replace many things that used to require Flash. You had <audio> and <video> to replace Flash to for embedding media. You had <canvas> to be able to draw arbitrary stuff with another ECMAScript known as JavaScript.

The Web replaced Flash.

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