Mobile SEO, Mobile Websites & You

Over the past few months, I have seen a lot of online chatter regarding mobile search. Some people are laughing at the .mobi TLD and all the money that was spent to acquire domains with the .mobi extension. Others are saying that the entire mobile website strategy has been a complete waste of money because of the surge in mobile technology. After all, it seems like everyone has a smart phone. Unlike the crappy, browser-less flip phones of the early 2000’s, nowadays we can surf the web on our phone with ease. So the big question is: With the emergence of smart phones with web-browsers, is there really a need to build a mobile version of your site?