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In article <84svs99hk53107h5lmp04l31aq6dojvhdd@4ax.com>, Tony Cooper <tonycooper214@gmail.com>wrote:

Whisky-dave
Why isn;t it. The battery is the power supply it's what supplies power to the circuitry so it is the power supply.

nospam
the power supply refers to the part that plugs in the wall, not the battery.

Tony Cooper
Apple doesn't refer to them as a "power supply". Apple calls them a "Power Adapter". It adapts, or converts, the incoming power to the level that is required to charge the battery.

nospam
it goes by many names.

Tony Cooper
Two, at least, but not the one you use: power supply.

nospam
including that, and several others.

Tony Cooper
Where is an instance - other than in your writing - where it is used by someone with credibility and/or an Apple employee?

nospam
many people call it that. the internals are a switching power supply. look it up and learn something for a change.

just because *you* never heard of it called that doesn't mean it's never done.

<http://www.amazon.com/JACKYLED-Switching-Power-Supply-Adapter/dp/B006NTNGN0>

<http://www.parts-express.com/12-vdc-2a-switching-power-supply-ac-adapter--129-077>

<http://www.powerstream.com/ac-0510-usb.htm>

Tony Cooper
http://store.apple.com/us/iphone/iphone-accessories/power#!

If you Google "iPhone power supply", you are redirected to "charging devices" and "power adapters".

https://www.apple.com/power-adapters/

nospam
which means that common usage is that power supply means the box that plugs into the wall.

Tony Cooper
No, it doesn't. It means that Google's algorithm picked up on the words "iPhone" and "power" and found the nearest probable inclusion of those words in a term. It has nothing - nothing - to do with "common usage".

nospam
nope. it means that google knows what was meant by a given search term based on what people actually use in the real world, not your little world.