I think memoji should be available to all platforms instead of others copying from Apple. They should have just opened up the iMessage and this would have been a revolutionary I bet Android users will never use their own messaging if iMessage was available on Android.
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Xiaomi Clones Apple's Memoji With New 'Mimoji' Avatars [Updated]
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Uh, how would Apple make money off that? that's what they're about- money.
Haha cool. At least Xiaomi is not charging an arm and a leg for their Apple imitations, unlike Samsung.
In China, land of government sponsored intellectual property theft? Good luck!
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Isn't China a (mainly) homogenous country? I understand that Mimoji diversity is good, but I wonder if anyone would use the Sikh avatar...(I like that one because I'm a Sith).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mii
This was announced in September 2006. You could use the nintendo camera to capture your face and make a mii version of yourself, or use the mii maker and fine tune it yourself.
When Apple came out with the memoji, I thought they had partnered with nintendo and the mii. No this isn’t a quote but I dn’t know how to fix it apparently.
Beijing, start your photocopiers!
Chinese company Xiaomi is gearing up to launch a new smartphone, the CC9, and along with it the company has introduced what it's calling "Mimoji" (via Engadget). Unsurprisingly given their name, these 3D avatars appear and function very similar to Apple's Memoji, letting users create and design their own torso-less characters and send them through texts.
Xiaomi's Mimoji via Xiaomi/Engadget
Xiaomi's avatars bear a striking resemblance to the avatars and customization options offered by Apple, down to similar hats and art styles. On iPhone, users can create and customize their Memoji, and then send them as videos or stickers in Messages, and it appears that Xiaomi's Mimoji will act in a similar fashion.
Of course, the idea of personalized 3D avatars has been around for a while, with companies like Samsung and Microsoft letting users create digital versions of themselves to use on smartphones, consoles, and elsewhere. With Xiaomi's decision to name its version of this idea Mimoji, however, the inspiration appears to be derived mostly from Apple.
Apple's Memoji
This isn't the first time that Xiaomi copied an emoji-related idea from Apple, as the company launched the equivalent of Apple's Animojis on its Mi 8 smartphone last year. This device also strongly resembled the iPhone X design, with its own notch and vertical dual-lens camera. There was also an AirPods clone released by Xiaomi earlier in 2019.
Xiaomi's CC9 smartphone will go on sale in China on July 5.
Article Link: Xiaomi Clones Apple's Memoji With New 'Mimoji' Avatars
Better change that to EyeFone.
Perhaps they will work 50% of the time like the useless Xiaomi smart home products I stupidly bought.
Cool! Just PM me your social security number, address history, date of birth, and I'll make sure you're flattered until the cows come home.
And here I thought the worst possible thing to copy from Apple was the notch. I stand corrected.
I'm feeling old now. I can't be the only one who finds these Memoji/Mimoji/Emoji/Oh Geez™ stuff ridiculous.
Do you think that Apple's Memojis are an original concept? They weren't the first.
But as is typical these days, something is only a "thing" when a mega-corp says so. This is why a company like Disney can take public-domain fairy tales, put their mark on it, now they own the copyright... which keeps getting extended so that nothing they own will ever enter the public domain.
Uhhhhh, last time I checked, "i" is a completely different letter from "e", Mitch. Total clickbait title.
Lol, what I find funny is that people here felt Memoji was a gimmicky feature for teenagers and younger while Apple is wasting its R&D resources, now that another company copies the look and the name in very close pronunciation, people here are up in arms. Someone would think this is as important as rounded corners