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by SSLy 1254 days ago
It's cultural, check boxes come from boring and usually not greatly designed universe of Windows and Linux desktops, toggles come from immediacy of iOS devices.
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I know I'm old but I still see light switches all around me. Doesn't anyone flip them anymore?

It's cultural but this has nothing to do with Windows, Linux, and iOS. You flip a switch, the light comes on immediately. This is about the immediacy of switches, not iOS devices.

No, we use apps to control lights now.