still think it should be possible to create apps in an Industry Standard such as HTML and for them to be platform independent.
Stating obvious superior solutions that you know the big evil corporations like MS and Apple would never allow.

Next your going to tell us that all hardware should use a standard interface so that drivers wouldn't be needed and the same hardware would work in any OS and any OS version.

When will you learn Ernest that those corporations aren't interested in doing things right, they just want to make more money.

/Sarcasm

Actually, I think you still could use HTML, it just wouldn't run as its own Metro app, it would run in the browser.