for me Option 3 + Option 4 - Universal UI and Native Mobile Apps is the best, responsive is fine for a blog site as wordpress not for a social network, for me must be only improved the mobile application to make it more adaptable to the third-party modules.
if the future was responsive why facebook, google+ and all the other social networks with billion dollar of revenue did not invest in this technology? the future for me are the Native Mobile Apps, where these social networks that have hundreds see more of developer and do surveys every day are investing.
facebook, google opted for mobile app development but because they could do it properly. They had closed platforms where every user had the same experience, no varying apps, modules, purposes between each and every user. Of course a dedicated mobile app in that case is going to be better if developed properly. for Dolphin however, it will be impossible for a mobile app to offer the same experience for each and every user as its designed to be customisable. Every Dolphin site is completely different. see more
Dolphin cannot be compared to facebook, google+ as its not anything like them.
It should be compared to Wordpress, Joomla etc as it is a CMS but 'focused' more on network (WP and joomla both have a number of social network themes and plugins that turn them into something very similar to dolphin...).
Wordpress and Joomla both have shifted towards responsive templates...
I remain by my opinion, Option 3 + Option 4..
Wordpress and Joomla both have shifted towards responsive templates but is a simple blog, if you use it as a social network are really poor, otherwise you would use this instead of being here on boonex, Wordpress and Joomla have much less functions for social network, and for me some third-party modules of Boonex is would adapt bad to responsive, and templates responsive of Wordpress and Joomla are not very suitable at 100% for their respective modules see more for social network, in more I see that on Boonex market there are developers who adapt any third-party module on the mobile app so I think it should not be impossible, only Boonex should be make this integration more simple.
not quite true. Ive been working with WP for social networking and can do pretty much everything D can do. You just have to use a few plugins to get the same features as D has integrated. There are also responsive social networking themes for WP that already do all the key functions of D, plus you have thousands of FREE plugins to use on top!
Your experience of them may have been 'really poor' but thats far from my experience, maybe you just didnt have the right themes/plugins.
Dolphin app is see more very limited need massive improvement to make it fully functional. Responsive kinda fixes this in a flash... dont get why people seem to be against the idea!???
if the future was responsive why facebook, google+ and all the other social networks with billion dollar of revenue did not invest in this technology? the future for me are the Native Mobile Apps, where these social networks that have hundreds see more
Wordpress and Joomla both have shifted towards responsive templates but is a simple blog, if you use it as a social network are really poor, otherwise you would use this instead of being here on boonex, Wordpress and Joomla have much less functions for social network, and for me some third-party modules of Boonex is would adapt bad to responsive, and templates responsive of Wordpress and Joomla are not very suitable at 100% for their respective modules see more
Your experience of them may have been 'really poor' but thats far from my experience, maybe you just didnt have the right themes/plugins.
Dolphin app is see more