This is a crazy thing to be saying at a time when everyone is questioning the price and performance of Surface.
Don't get me wrong. Surface looks good. But what is the impression after a week of use? Does the cheaper model compete effectively with the $400 iPad2? Does the more expensive model compete with an Ultrabook?
Really. Innovation is about competitiveness as much as ideas. And if the Surface is over priced without being as useful, then Ballmer's comments are embarrassing.
Despite the fact mobile devices are getting more and more powerful.
And mobile browsers and getting faster and faster javascript and rendering engines.
Just do everything native. Build it for Android. Then for iOS. Then for Windows Phone. Spend lots of money doing that. Because everything must be native.
The web is dead. Cross platform web content is a dead end. It never worked!
It's very hard to understand how services operate until there is a failure?