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On 2024-06-12 21:31:09 +0000, Alan Browne said:
> On 2024-06-12 12:37, Enrico Papaloma wrote:
>> On 6/12/2024 6:50 AM, candycanearter07 wrote:
>>>>> Note that Android scheduled messages works for everyone;
>>>> 
>>>> Is it a useful feature?  I haven't used it, if I received a "happy
>>>> birthday" text at 00:00:01 on my birthday it would hardly feel personal ...
>>> 
>>> I use stuff like schedule send on email sometimes, so I'm sure there's
>>> some use for it.
>> 
>> I use scheduled messages as kind of an alarm for others.
>> 
>> If I need an alarm for myself, I can add an alarm to my own phone.
>> But as am alarm for someone else, I add a scheduled sms/mms message.
>> 
>> It's especially useful when the message crosses over into time zones.
> 
> I think it's a feature I would use but not terribly often.
> 
> More likely to set a reminder to myself to send a message at some point 
> in the future.  But I suppose the "fire and forget" nature of it might 
> be useful.
> 
> Hmm ... might be some neat pranks I could pull.  Need to test that.

I can see it being business marketing departments using scheduled text 
messages (e.g. a book release at 00:01), but they no doubt already use 
a system via computers to do that rather than on an actual mobile phone.