A couple of days ago, we reported that Xiaomi will be releasing a new version of Xiaomi Mimoji with the upcoming Mi CC9 smartphone. After the news broke out, many Chinese bloggers started accusing Xiaomi of plagiarism as Apple had also launched Memoji, which are customizable humanoid Animoji characters that you can design to look just like you.
Now, Xiaomi issued a statement clarifying that it has not copied it from Apple. It also threatened to take legal action against those who keep spreading such inaccurate information, whom the company is calling rumor-mongers.
Xiaomi Group’s General Manager of Public Relations Xu Jieyun issued another statement on the matter that when the company first launched this feature in May 2018, it’s English name was Mimoji, as well as the APK package name, is also Mimoji. Xu Jieyun also said that Apple changed its name to Memoji on 5th June 2018 and that the functional logic of the two products is very different. Further, the statement clarifies that the etymology comes from ‘Emoji’.
Xu Jieyun also said that the statement is coming one day after the incident because the company took the required time to do internal self-examination. It is also mentioned that all notarization of evidence has been completed prior to the issuance of the statement.
The statement from the company also asks the accusers to provide proof to back their claim and if they keep continuing spreading such information without properly backing it up with proof, the company will take the next stage of action. By the next stage of action, it seems that Xiaomi is talking about legal actions.
