Let’s talk about the elephant in the room. Steve Jobs’ "Thoughts on Flash" (April 2010) had already sealed Flash’s fate. By the time CS5.5 launched, the web was moving to HTML5.
CS5.5 didn’t fail because it was bad. It failed because the world changed. ADOBE FLASH PROFESSIONAL CS5.5 -thethingy-
Released in April 2011, CS5.5 didn’t roar onto the scene. It sidled in. It was neither the revolutionary breakthrough of CS3 (the first Intel Mac version) nor the final death rattle of CS6. Instead, CS5.5 was a patch . A pivot. A desperate, brilliant, and ultimately futile attempt to keep the Flash dream alive while the iPhone sailed the world without it. Let’s talk about the elephant in the room