You don’t want me to buy your mobile app? Ok, I won’t.

It’s late at night and I’ve just found out some news about the subway worker’s strike in my city. A friend of mine will use the subway tomorrow to go to work and I want to tell them about it. Problem is, they’re already asleep.

I know – I’ll download a SMS scheduling app from the Nokia Ovi Store, type the message and the app will send it tomorrow morning, just in time for my friend to read it.

My Ovi client doesn’t work any more after the latest E72 update, so I use the native browser. It goes like this: I open the Ovi website and search for “sms schedule”. Nothing. I search for “sms scheduler” and check the three relevant results. On a second look, it’s the same app with three different prices.

They have the same description too, so I give up and just pick the second most expensive. “Want to send a Time Based SMS to be Sent Later? Write it now & Forget it! It will be Auto Sent.” Who are these guys? I visit their website and discover that they are one of the “Largest Developers of Mobile Applications in the World”. And they like to randomly capitalize words.

A few searches later I find another scheduler app and open its description – “The application will silently assist you and won’t bother when you have limited time. You’re able to create and manage short messages in an ordinary way.”

I decided that it’s safer to wake up in the morning to tell my friend about the strike.