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In article <e7rrs9tisnm4ha8v8ma36tr4j5bj20iv64@4ax.com>, Eric Stevens <eric.stevens@sum.co.nz>wrote:

Sandman
I think you'll find that when asked to flip the switch to make the iPhone go silent, few people fear that they need to disassemble the device in order to "get at" the switch.

Eric Stevens
Few people ever want to 'get at' the switch. All they want to do is operate it from the outside, for which task a mechanism exists.

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which makes it an external switch.

Eric Stevens
You are grasping at straws.

nospam
it's not me who is grasping at straws.

Eric Stevens
If I adopted your usage I would have to believe that your socks are outside your shoes.

nospam
bad analogy.

a somewhat better analogy would be the door to your house has an outside knob/latch (on the exterior of the house) and an inside knob/latch (in the interior of the house), yet the actual locking mechanism is inside the door itself and moves when either the outside or inside knob is turned.

by your definition, the door has two internal doorknobs/latches.