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> This is going to be another of their socially awkward gimmicks like Memojis they will double down until they inevitably fail.

I don't necessarily agree. Some have talked about how the weirdness starts to fade after getting into a conversation and focusing on the discussion or collaboration at hand. It seems that once the brain has adjusted a bit, it can start to fill in for the badness somewhat.

The feature clearly has a long way to go before it's good, but I think it's premature to dismiss it. Future iterations will only improve, so if some people are finding some success with it now, that will only grow.

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No, I absolutely get that. I still remember how talking to yourself wearing wired headset on the street was weird.

But it’s been over 5 years since Apple started pushing Memojis, they still continued as recently as last year and they have little adoption still, as far as I am aware.

Those who watched WWDC remember how cringey those Memoji bits were, I specifically refer to that aspect of their being increasingly out of touch.

I dunno. I know people who use their Memojis regularly and seem to enjoy it. I personally do not, but I think I’m not their target user. Not sure what the broader adoption looks like.

But I think these are different enough capabilities that the success or failure of one is not necessarily predictive of the other.

> Not sure what the broader adoption looks like.

Just google news Memojis and see what you get. Hardly any content, and if you navigate 2-3 pages further, you quickly reach 2022 and 2021 articles.

If that doesn't scream "low adoption" then I don't know what does.

As a method of estimating adoption, that seems fairly suspect. It doesn't exactly seem like a capability that would generate much news.

Google Trends seems more likely to be instructive, and as a topic, it has shown fairly steady (if low) interest over time after peaking on release with some periodic spikes most likely correlated with major updates.

But as a feature, I wouldn't expect even Google trends to be very instructive (for understanding adoption), since people who know how to use them aren't likely to be out there searching. More use = more familiarity = less searching. Who knows; maybe they're barely used, but there isn't good data to back up that claim, and there are a number of other ways to interpret the data that does exist.

With all of that said, I'll maintain that I don't see any real connection between them and Personas, or any predictive value in comparing them.

> More use = more familiarity = less searching.

For the record, my point here was: More use = more familiarity = better writing subject for portals and journalism

Uh, of the 100 or so acquaintances I have who use iphones, way more than half of them use their memoji for their public-facing visual representation. Nobody writes news articles about that for the same reason they no longer write news articles about the ability to use your voice to dictate messages, or charge your phone without plugging in a cable.

Good thing its not Memoji.

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