Apple's New Memoji vs. Samsung's AR Emoji

[H2SO4]

Reminds me of this, which is still true today

- Microsoft: we are making square wheels
- Apple: we are making them round
- Microsoft: but we were first!

Oh please, Apple love to shout about how they were first with something, you never seen that blow hard Cook up on stage during a Keynote? Please, please go and look at one and then perhaps edit your post to reflect the truth?
That aside whilst I wouldn't sat the Samsung one is any better than the Apple one I wouldn't say that the reverse is true either. For me the word MEmoji implies that the character will look like me. This article says that Samsung wins in that department.

 

[ranReloaded]

Apple's MeMoji vs. Samsung's MeTooMoji

 

[FelixDerKater]

The Samsung character gave me the creeps. I just locked my door.

 

[Chambers McMac]

Used it once then no more. But It did create more jobs or more work for a team of Apple employees so ok.

 

[cmaier]

People are dumb. It’s a good thing that memoji exist, whether you ever intend to use them or not. Apple dogfooding its APIs (SceneKit, ARKit in this case) helps ensure that they are actually functional, performant, and sufficiently full featured for use in third party apps.

The real problems come when Apple DOESNT use public sdks and ship apps with them.

 

[Mainsail]

There's not much MacRumors can do for these frustrated folks who seem to believe that the people designing animated emojis for the iPhone are also the same exact people who design Macintosh hardware.

This is a silly argument. No company has unlimited resources. They all have to make trade-offs. Apple may have a lot of cash in the bank, but that’s balance sheet stuff. They still need to manage expenses to maintain quarterly margins for the P&L and keep stockholders happy. So, they have to decide if they are going to hire hardware engineers to make improvements in their entry level Macs, designers to admire laptop color schemes, or software engineers to build cool animated emojis.

Clearly, Apple believes the profit maximizing answer is cool animated emoji......and that might be correct......but, it’s sad.

 

[peterdevries]

This is a silly argument. No company has unlimited resources. They all have to make trade-offs. Apple may have a lot of cash in the bank, but that’s balance sheet stuff. They still need to manage expenses to maintain quarterly margins for the P&L and keep stockholders happy. So, they have to decide if they are going to hire hardware engineers to make improvements in their entry level Macs, designers to admire laptop color schemes, or software engineers to build cool animated emojis.

Clearly, Apple believes the profit maximizing answer is cool animated emoji......and that might be correct......but, it’s sad.

In principle correct reasoning, but people always assume that there are hundreds or thousands of developers working on features such as this; whole sections of the Apple HQ working solely on Animoji, while in reality it is most likely a small dedicated team of developers with little total cost impact on the P&L.

 

[44267547]

You’re missing the point - he’s not aiming this at Mac Rumors, it’s aimed at Apple.

Obviously I didn’t miss the point, because I acknowledged in my post that I understand that member wants Apple to be a specific way, but the comment made “How about going back to making Macs” has no relation to this article whatsoever. I’m not sure what you’re arguing about being what I said was correct.

They completely neglected the hardware at WWDC .

You do realize that WWDC is never guaranteed to launch hardware, it’s about the software/developers first. So even if you don’t agree with the ‘Memoji’ feature, that actually would be more in line of being introduced because it software related versus something hardware, which is not something Apple has to announce at WWDC.

 

[Jack Burton]

All I care about is that the makers of Cinema 4d put out a free iPhone X app that turns your iPhone into a portable facial mocap studio.

I loved the tech for animoji on day one. Now it can be used for getting a whole lot of work done quickly. THAT is the Apple I know and love.

http://blog.maxon.co.uk/3d-facial-animation-made-easy-with-cinema-4d-iphone-x-cv-ar

 

[44267547]

The point is that Apple is wasting recourse on this instead on things that will A) make their clients happy .

So you’re technically inferring that the memoji doesn’t make clients happy, therefore Apple should not produce it, at all. How would you know what makes a client happy off a software feature.

 

[makingdots]

You’re missing the point - he’s not aiming this at Mac Rumors, it’s aimed at Apple. They completely neglected the hardware at WWDC and instead promoted this rubbish. Just go to the buyers guide and take a look at the Mac line up. It’s shockingly neglected.

Aren't you the one missing the point of WWDC? It stands for Worldwide Developer Conference... it's primarily an event for "software" developers worldwide. It's also became the usual time of the year when they release new "software" version of iOS, MacOS, watchOS, tvOS... you're probably new to anticipate hardware that much during WWDC

 

[currentinterest]

I love Animojis and use them frequently. I am looking forward to Meamoji. ...And I am semi-retired.

 

[makingdots]

The point is that Apple is wasting recourse on this instead on things that will A) make their clients happy and / or more productive B) make them more money C) See A.

Those who are assigned to Memoji iOS feature are probably bunch of apple employees who are specialized with animation and/or graphic designs. So they are not really wasting resources that much because those apple engineers who are tinkering with core-level stuffs doesn't really collaborate that much to Memoji team. I guess, maybe stop generalizing everything?

 

[carlsson]

You (the ones that hate memojis, that is) don’t get it! This is not about creating cartoonish copies of yourself -it’s about inventing a technique that can be used in other areas of interest. For example, at the hair stylist, the personal shopper experience, etc etc.

It’s about putting your actual face in a virtual environment.

This is only the beginning, and memojis is the start of it.

/$0.02

 

[Piggie]

I prefer Apple's more cartoony look right now, simply from a quality standpoint.
But they are of course limited by their lack of 3D quality facial tracking.

It will be interesting to see, in years to come, when 3D face tracking becomes standard across all phones how this will change.

 

[midkay]

It's not even close. Memoji wins by a thousand miles.

 

[FoxMcCloud]

TrueDepth camera is totally coming to next iMacs and MacBooks. If not for faceunlock alone, but for the FaceTime Animoji goodness!

 

[Abazigal]

It's not even close. Memoji wins by a thousand miles.

And the gulf only looks set to widen. Apple invested all that money in Face ID for a reason, while Samsung has to make do with a normal face scanner, and they don’t look like they will catch up anytime soon.

Wonder if we will eventually see Face ID in our Apple watches and Macs as well.

 

[Benjamid]

I want a Super Mario Animoji reminiscent of the title screen of Super Mario 64!!!! Nintendo and Apple make it happen!

 

[EvilEvil]

Both are worthless.

 

[DMWARP]

Sometimes things can just be fun.

 

[crsh1976]

Seeing where Apple uses its highly trained and competent employees' brains lately, I'm more and more convinced I'm no longer in a priority consumer segment.

Geez, just give me an updated iMac or Mac Mini so I can throw you some money, Apple.

 

[Vjosullivan]

Because the public in general loves it even if you don’t. Do you realize how many flagship iPhones they’re going to sell because people want to send Animoji and Memoji to their friends and family? It isn’t insignificant like you claim.

How many is it then?

 

[miric]

Samsung's offspring looks like absolute BS.

 

[9081094]

Apple might not always be the first to the market with a product/feature, but when they release it, it’s done properly!

Maps, Siri, iCloud, iWork... well, do i have to say more?