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That guy writes a lot of stuff. But every single argument of his is based on and therefore falls with his false equation IE6 = iPhone.
The problems we got from IE6 were not due to its then-modern rendering engine but due to its not being standards-compliant. The IE6 rendered many tags the wrong way and even introduced some of his own. iPhone's Webkit-based Mobile Safari, however, is fully standards-compliant. So the only problem is that some competing mobile browsers are not as advanced yet as Mobile Safari is today. Android and Nokia both use Webkit just like Apple does. Same with Palm.
Sure, most websites that feature a mobile version are optimized for 320x480, but you can hardly blame anyone for that since it's a defacto standard. Plus, smartphones with higher resolutions than that should have no problems displaying such websites, and surfing the web at even lower resolutions wouldn't make much fun anyway.
To put it shortly: developing websites exclusively for specific devices is never a good idea, but that guy talks a lot of trash.
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