Adobe to pull plug on Flash after years of waning popularity

The media-powering technology was once inescapable - but it began to fall out of favor after Apple decided not to use it on the iPhone

Adobe Flash, a once ubiquitous technology used to power most of the media content found online, will be retired at the end of 2020, the software company announced Tuesday.

Adobe - along with Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Mozilla - said support for Flash would ramp down across the internet in phases over the next three years.