Ballmer mocked iPhone as a luxury item at unrealistically high prices because he looked at it as just another smartphone. If you look at iPhone as a low-price

Ballmer mocked iPhone as a luxury item at unrealistically high prices because he looked at it as just another smartphone. If you look at iPhone as a low-price disruptor to computers (and I think that's fair when you consider how many people use iPhone as their primary or only computing device), its pricing makes perfect sense.