> Roughly nothing used Flash Lite, outside of a few weird embedded use cases like the Chumby.

I recall it a bit differently. By December 2006, Adobe claimed that Flash Lite had shipped on 220 million devices[1].

That was probably the apex, though — by 2010, it was all over.

> Web content was almost exclusively full-on Flash.

Yes, always IIRC. Flash Lite content wasn't delivered via the web.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash_Lite

I remember installing Opera and Flash Lite in my Windows Mobile smartphone and it being able to run Flash content. Was it a sluggish hand warmer? Sure, but then it was a 300 MHz TI OMAP (overclocked, of course!) and at most 128 MB of RAM, probably even less.

Interesting! I stand corrected about it not working in mobile browsers, thank you.

Flash Lite was commonly used in Japenese domestic web for feature phone until around ~2012. Most phones had supported Flash Lite.