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I think the same reason why it has a totally non-standard title bar area; they've decided to chuck in the human interface guidelines altogether :(. It joins Address Book and iCal in non-standardness ... and yet they reverted the vertical traffic lights in iTunes, the ONE example that I actually liked ><. /rant
 
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