No, the google assistant works on SMS. Just tried it with my girlfriend and her iPhone. Obviously you can’t encrypt the SMS...

MPC-HC is a good option. I personally use Plex with a deticated server, but before I had all that fun stuff I had switched to MPC-HC because it was more reliable than VLC.

Yes it will never send an sms message. The person sending it would think it went fine, and the person with the Android (or Windows or BB) would never get it. If for some reason they went back to an iPhone, or logged into messages on a mac, then the message would be there. But for the >90% of the world without mac,…

Downloaded the app.

Came here to post this. Glad it was the top comment.