Whether they like it or not, this will cause issues for legacy use cases and people will likely just resort to using out of date versions of the extension.
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Why are they doing this?
I don't see the point of this.
Flash is really garbage and full of security holes. They're killing it to prevent people from relying on it as the only way to force change in a lot of ways is to make bold moves like this.
This announcement of retirement happened years ago so if your business is still relying on Flash in some fashion it's on you or your retarded superiors.
Honestly the only people I see upset about the Flash changes are considered with the legacy content of the internet being lost. Which is a valid concern I think.
I come from an IT background (like a lot of people here), so I guess I have a different perspective on things. I think it sucks that some stuff will be lost, but I don't really know what they expect anyone to do. Projects that run flash games in a sandbox app have popped up to archive a lot of flash-based content so there still is a record of it's existence at least.
Maybe open sourcing Flash Player is an option, but a lot of the flaws that make Flash bad are architectural. This is the only way I can see this ending.