Sandman
The quibble is for anyone to take this out of context and interprete it as a claim about smart phones having no moving parts whatsoever, regardless if its related to data storage.

Eric Stevens
I thought it all started when you posted on 16 Jul 2014 10:14:52 GMT in Message-ID: <slrnlsckg6.pkj.mr@irc.sandman.net>:

"What "switch" was this? You say it's an internal component, and the topic was "moving parts" so you seem to imply that inside your iPhone there was a mechanical physically moving "switch" that was broken. Having seen the insides of many iPhones (I have a friend that repair them), I can assure you that no such switch exists."

Sandman
Of course not, given the fact that I was not the first one to talk about an internal switch. That was Peter.

Eric Stevens
Agreed, but you were the first person to deny that there was a switch.

nospam
there are no internal switches in iphones or ipads. period.

Eric Stevens
What causes the iPad to turn off wwhen you close the cover?

Sandman
No it doesn't. Your link shows one of the external switches. In fact, it shows the only switch in the entire phone, which is external.

Eric Stevens
You have a most peculiar definition of 'external'.

nospam
ex·ter·nal

adjective adjective: external 1. belonging to or forming the outer surface or structure of something."the external walls"

Eric Stevens
The switch under discussion does not form part of the external walls.

nospam
2. coming or derived from a source outside the subject affected."for many people the church was a symbol of external authority"

Eric Stevens
For the switch under discussion the push button was a source of external authority.

nospam
that perfectly applies to the switches and buttons on an iphone.

Eric Stevens
From where did you get these definitions?

I've gone to the New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary:

External ... outwardly visible or manifest ...

Of or situated on the outside or visible part of something ...

situated outside or beyond the limits of a given object ...

Doesn't seem to apply to a switch inside the iPhone case, even if it does have an external twiddly bit which allows you to work it from the outside.