There’s been a lot of talk this past week on whether or not Flash had been disable in Mac OS X Lion. According to this MacStories.net report, the battle between Apple and Flash does not carry over from the iPhone and iPad to Lion. The quote an adobe update and blog post in their story with the following:

With an update and a blog post, Adobe has now clarified that video hardware acceleration is not disabled in Lion.

The final release of Mac OS X Lion (10.7) provides the same support for Flash hardware video acceleration as Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6). The previous “Known Issue” described in a tech note suggesting that video hardware acceleration was disabled in Lion was incorrect and based on tests with a pre-release version of Mac OS X Lion that related to only one particular Mac GPU configuration. We continue to work closely with Apple to provide Flash Player users with a high quality experience on Mac computers.

From the Known Issues page:

Flash Player may cause higher CPU activity when playing a YouTube video. Possibly related to disabled hardware acceleration.

But then there’s an update below the first note:

UPDATE: The final release of Mac OS X Lion (10.7) provides the same support for Flash hardware video acceleration as Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6). The previous “Known Issue” suggesting that video hardware acceleration was disabled in Lion was incorrect and based on tests with a pre-release version of Mac OS X Lion that related to only one particular Mac GPU configuration. We continue to work closely with Apple to provide Flash Player users with a high quality experience on Mac computers.

So there you have. Not a big deal at all. At least that’s what we’re told. Too bad…another battle between Adobe and Apple seems so much more exciting. Don’t you think?