Designing for Flow by Jim Ramsey

I'm kind of an Apple fanboy, but there's this one thing that's been bothering me. Apple redesigned their site a few months ago and and combined their logo, navigation and search into a single gray bar at the top of the page. I like the simplicity, but what drives me nuts is that when I look at the site in Safari, the bar becomes almost invisible to me. It looks so much like the browser chrome in color and size that it just seems to disappear. I really don't get what they were thinking.