Samsung Galaxy S9 is criticized by some of those who tested it as having copied from iPhone X the new Animoji function, in the smartphone of Koreans it is integrated in the form of a named application AR Emoji. The Samsung Galaxy S9 has, through the AR Emoji application, a similar functionality, but with some improvements implemented by the Koreans to try to offer something new so that people do not immediately think that it is an Animoji clone.
Samsung Galaxy S9 offers, just like Animoji, the possibility to control with facial expressions and head movements, a virtual character, the difference being that here it is created based on our face, it is not predefined, as with iPhone X. The president of the mobile division of Samsung still claims that the function in the Samsung Galaxy S9 is "new" and that it has been thinking of implementing it in smartphones since 2001, but only in 2017, after the launch of the iPhone X, is it offered.
Samsung claims that the Galaxy S9 did not copy the iPhone X
The Samsung Galaxy S9 would have an AR Emoji function completely different from the Animoji in the iPhone X, according to Samsung's president, but what else could he say after years and years of Samsung copying the iPhone. No matter how much the president of Samsung tries to make it clear that an Animoji clone was not implemented in the Samsung Galaxy S9, the world knows what Apple launched last year and what the Koreans did, even if we are not talking about a 1:1 copy between functions.
"He bristled at any notion Samsung was playing catch-up with Apple, as the human emojis took years of development, he added. "Their approach and my approach is totally different," said Mr. Koh, cautious not to mention Apple, a rival and components customer, by name. "I do work seriously based off my own roadmap."
The Samsung Galaxy S9 comes with some innovations compared to the iPhone X and this should not be overlooked, but the fact that the AR Emoji feature was inspired by Animoji should not be overlooked either. Samsung doesn't seem capable of offering popular features for its own smartphones, so in order for the Samsung Galaxy S9 to succeed, the Korean company decided to implement something that proved to be popular in the iPhone X.
