From Apple's iPhone Human Interface Guidelines (a must-read if doing iPhone development).
Once you use the detail disclosure button it acts like a button. Meaning that the user has to tap this button in order to perform some action (you can catch this tap by implementing the - (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView accessoryButtonTappedForRowWithIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath method of the UITableViewDelegate).
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