Exactly, when you browse to Facebook.com on your iPhone Safari, Facebook recognizes that you are browsing through your iPhone and presents you with the mobile version of their site, optimized for a good mobile browsing experience. So you are not browsing it as you would on your desktop, which is a very good thing when it comes the usability on a mobile device. This is what xenForo needs,
definitely. How many years have we requested this for vBulletin? It is still not delivered!
Look at Invision:
http://www.invisionpower.com/suite/iphone ... they even provide a dedicated iPhone app.
I understand the big benefit of a general mobile skin compared to brand specific Apps. But... you can get Push notifications on your iPhone when browsing just a mobile skin for example? Can you easily just make a picture with your iPhone and upload it in 3 secs to your xenForo (future) Photoalbums, using the mobile version of the site? Obviously, there are also great pros of a dedicated App compared to a mobile style. However, I would be very, very pleased if xenForo could start with a mobile style. I don't know how a forum platform can do without to be honest in today's internet world, which is so much more mobile then a few years ago. Browsing through Safari on your iPhone without any dedicated mobile skin is just... not the way it should or is meant to be IMHO.
Especially when it comes to a site powered by forum software, which has so many user functions that are just not designed to be used on a tiny little screen with you having to zoom in and out all the freakin' time as the enduser.