Have to say, not the best blog post I've seen written here... kinda more of a statement of position than asking for opinions, suggestions, comments...

Seems all but most comments from boonex towards the mobile 'issue' are to give reasons why we should totally disregard responsive templates and stick with the apparently great mobile app as the way forwards!
To compare responsive to WAP also... really???
IF in 2 years, everyone has woken up and realised that responsive templates are a waste of see more time then I will eat my boonex hat :-)
The example you give of boonex.com being 'responsive' is not great. Ok, so it will re-scale 'to a point'. Lets try linking to the forums page now on my smart phone... wait a mo, best get the magnifying glass first.

IF you are building a site with mobile in mind, when using a responsive layout, you build it in a way so it does not differ so much on different devices anyway. Unless of course you have no idea of site layout in the first place.

Dolphin - is a template / CMS itself for those who wish to build their own network based sites. It's biggest sales point so far as Im concerned is that is is highly adaptive. Mostly due to the extensive community plugins that are a major life blood to the whole thing.
YET - these are not supported in the mobile app...
What point is a mobile app if it does not reflect the site more than say 10%!
Why complain about responsive templates 'moving things around' when the mobile app doesn't offer 'things' in the first place!
Think I would prefer the responsive yet functional version here!

As for using facebook and google as examples that have not chosen responsive templates, well that because they have mobile apps THAT WORK. They do what the sites do... and are also incredibly linked up to other functions built into smart phones!

Hardly the same kettle of fish as Dolphin mobile right now...

So, I guess after this anti rant - rant, my choice would be a combination.
1 - Give us a good mobile app that supports 3rd party modules easily and actually reflects the full set of site functions.
2 - Then give us responsive templates. It's not that difficult, AndrewP put a couple together within days of the big 'responsive' debate starting on the forums and I have to say, they work great.

Universal... well I have to wait to see exactly how that will work before commenting, right now it seems to be as far away as Dolphin 8 probably is.

Till the mobile app improves massively, responsive is currently the best option for Dolphin by a long way.