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by mts_ 4091 days ago
Services like $timeout and $interval are basically just thin wrappers around their vanilla JS relatives(setTimeout and setInterval), there are more examples like this.

The APIs look identical, some with a little added functionality - but the primary reason for the AngularJS wrappers is that they'll automatically call $scope.$apply() for you, so that you don't have to do it yourself.