What Mobile design is all about?

Mobile design is about context and speed.
Have a great native app is good only if users already have it installed because ask to the users to go to an app marketplace and download our app can be too much to expect.
By provoding a version of our site to mobile users is important no matter if we have native app or not.
What are the approach you use to build your mobile Web app?

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