How Flash games shaped the video game industry

Another point for Jobs was that " Flash was a cross-platform development tool. It is not Adobe’s goal to help developers write the best iPhone, iPod, and iPad apps. It is their goal to help developers write cross-platform apps. And Adobe has been painfully slow to adopt enhancements to Apple’s platforms."

Performance - At the time Flash did not perform well on mobile devices.

Security - Flash did not have the best security record at the time in order for apple to add it to its devices.

he way we develop, discover, and play games is rapidly evolving.

One of the goals of Steve Jobs with this memo was to jot down some of their thoughts on Adobe’s Flash products so thatcustomers and critics may better understand why they do not allow Flash on iPhones, iPods, and iPads.

This trend has a long way to go, though. Making video games is colossally hard and expensive; you need to be a crazy genius indie game developer with ultra-high risk tolerance, or else a mega-corporation like Unity or Steam or Valve, to do it. Video games haven’t yet had their “creator revolution”.

Companies that attach themselves to a specific game early in their development process run the risk of being shut out by publishers or becoming niche products unable to break into other games. Some of today’s most successful gaming companies such as Twitch or Discord can attribute much of their success to being game-agnostic.