All right before you start pissing on that bonfire I was just asking for opinions, there are actually many benefits to a mobile application over a browser, reduced data use, data caching, mobile user interface etc, same reason you wouldn't use the Google+ desktop view on a mobile.

And I can't really argue on that latter point.

It would be a fair amount of work, but I was thinking it would be a nice little side project that would help me brush up on mobile optimisation techniques if people were going to use it.