In a recent NYT interview with Steve Jobs, Jobs points out the way a multitouch display shifts software from a “point-verb” model to an “action” model: “There are no ‘verbs’ in the iPhone interface, he said, alluding to the way a standard mouse or stylus system works. In those systems, users select an object, like a photo, and then separately select an action, or ‘verb,’ to do something to it.”