I was actually agreeing with you, in that running a private mail server is not a difficult endeavor as long as you take those things into account. Most VPS and CSP will block SMTP by default (just recently went through this with AWS, had to specifically request the service) since most everyone doesn’t have a clue how to secure mail relays and stay off blacklists.

Google, Live, AOL, Yahoo etc might hassle you for DKIM or SPF, but in my experience the ISP is the first hurdle.

If anything it’s the ISPs that will hassle you for outbound SMTP. There are ways around that but generally blocked by default

There are dozens of us!

I can relate to both sides of this fight, but to lend my POV on Apple’s stance, they have a valid argument.

When you sign the developer agreement and submit an app to the App Store, you are entering into a contract to make concessions to Apple’s business model, and Epic clearly violated these T&Cs.

If Epic truly wanted to institute change in App Store policies in order to maximize their profits from Fortnite, they would have first engaged Apple to initiate the discussion and work towards an amicable solution, which Apple would likely flat out deny. It’s at this point that Epic could have used its substantial presence in the industry to rally the developers, the press, and its own user base to stand up to Apple policies and effect that change.

As it stands, their decision to wait for their assured dismissal from the App Store to pursue litigation and position themselves as trying to “stand up for indie developers” comes off as insincere and primarily seeking publicity based on Apple’s action in simply abiding by its own long established policies.

Note: While I am primarily a Mac user in my personal life, I tend to be very critical of Apple’s business practices in general, and while I have my own negative opinions about Fortnite’s transactional model, I try to be unbiased in my response to their actions and subsequent behavior.

Uncle Tony is gonna do a little demo! We’re gonna rock GustavoM’s world

emacs?! set -o vi unless you just want to see the world burn

(I’m kidding, I use the emacs shortcuts in bash, but vim is my goto text editor)