This is Garrett Murray's Maniacal Rage

Shawn:

So one of my biggest pet peeves with the iPhone is that the silent switch doesn’t truly silence the phone. If the iPhone is set to silent mode, phone rings and all alert sounds are silenced, but the iPod is NOT…

This is compounded by the fact that, once you leave iPod or lock the phone it takes a few taps to get back to a place where you can hit pause. When I’m frantically trying to silence my phone I should be able to access some kind of “panic button” to instantly quiet the phone. One would think this would be the silent button. At the absolute least, this should be a preference. Someone fix this. Someone fix this immediately.

And I completely agree. This has happened to me a few times in quiet situations and it’s very frustrating. Silent should mean COMPLETELY silent.