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Personalized Emoticon Apps

The Memoji Keyboard Allows You to Send Animated Emojis of Yourself

— April 4, 2015 — Tech
Sending emojis with your messages can be fun but the smiley faces often lack originality and can become tiresome very quickly. For those who would like to add a unique experience to the picture characters that they send, the personalized emoji app Memoji Keyboard lets users replace Apple's emojis with animated ones of themselves.

Former Apple engineer, Johnny Lin, is the creator of this personalized emoji app that enables users to send animated GIFs of themselves, as well as the classic emojis.

The Memoji Keyboard is available in the app store for free and will allow you to generate up to five "memojis" using your own face. To create more GIFs, users will have to pay $0.99 to unlock the rest of the memoji options. However, if you are not up to spending a buck, you can alter your five free ones whenever you want.
Trend Themes
1. Personalized Emojis - The soaring popularity of personalized emojis that go beyond the traditional set of emojis presents the disruptive innovation opportunity for companies to create more expressive and unique visual messages.
2. Mobile Messaging Apps - The demand for personalized emojis presents potential disruption in mobile messaging apps as companies can integrate this feature into their platforms, making them more appealing to users.
3. AI and Facial Recognition Technology - The personalized emoji app's integration of AI and facial recognition technology provides disruptive innovation opportunities for businesses to expand their applications beyond messaging, such as in social media marketing or facial recognition for security purposes.
Industry Implications
1. Mobile App Development - The growing demand for personalized emojis presents a disruptive innovation opportunity for mobile app developers to create visual messaging apps that allow users to integrate their own emojis.
2. Social Media - Personalized emojis are increasingly gaining popularity on social media platforms, presenting an opportunity for companies to incorporate these features and make their platforms stand out from competitors.
3. Entertainment and Gaming - Incorporating personalized emojis into entertainment and gaming platforms presents creative disruptive innovation opportunities for companies to enhance user experiences and make their games more immersive.
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