If Studio will make designing your website powered by Dolpin easier, then I'm all for. There is a fundamental reason people associate the "look and feel" of this product with iPhone and that is because Apple developers obviously had the forethought to understand that making things look more inviting will get people to USE IT! The biggest problem I have always had with the core product is the un-useablity of it to the average user. Case in point, I had a technician from my current hosting see more company try to help me fix the problem I was having uploading videos to my site. The FIRST thing they said is "I tried but could not because I am not sure how to do this, can you please send me instructions?" Surely this person was NOT a newbie as they assist many customers with their technical needs on their hosting company. No product delivered to the masses should be that difficult to follow!<br>
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My site continues to grow and has doubled based purely on my fans wanting to follow me (I have nearly 800 members), however the site is not ACTIVE because it not clear and apparent to the AVERAGE user how to navigate the site. BAD BUSINESS! Doesn't matter how many bells and whistles you add to Dolphin it's going to fall flat and fail miserably if it is not easy to use, bottom line!
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For once I am in total agreement with freakpower as I have been forced to explore other social network scripts this past year as a direct result of my continued frustration with Dolphin. I did try Joomla and agree the adminstration is organized neatly and makes even if you have never used it before. The location tabs and related submenus was easy to follow and had plenty of help available if you got stuck in the administration without ever having to leave the site. In Dolpin, something as simple as the friend feature makes no sense at all, who is going to associate the tab "Activity" with friends, it took time just to figure out where my friend requests were going on the site. The deal breaker with me and Joomla is that I wanted a social network NOT A BLOG or FORUM site! I purchased JomSocial (the social network component) and tried to incorporate it into Joomla and found it difficult and clumsy to do. IMAO they should just sell it as a standalone product. What I think most people are looking for is quality (runs most of the time without bugs or errors), functionality (plenty of features that work well 2gether) and EASY to use!
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IMAO Ning still surpasses all the social networking scripts I have tried in the area of functionality and ease of use. Not being able to use it on your OWN server is the dealbreaker for me, which includes but not limited to: Drupal, WordPress/Buddy Press, SocialEngine, phpFox (which is what I am going with now and is the closest thing to Ning I could find that open source), Elgg, SkaDate, any many others that offer their core product free. phpFox is the exception.