A California district court Monday denied An Apple request to launch a class action demand that claims that the iPhone Maker violates competition laws forcing users of their devices to back up their critical files and the device’s configuration to their cloud storage service, ICloud.
The complaint also accuses Apple of not allowing third -party cloud services to access certain files and prevent them
The Judge of the North -American District, Eumi Lee, had previously dismissed the case, saying that the plaintiffs did not sufficiently declare a claim. The plaintiffs filed a second modification Complaint at the beginning of this yearand the judge found the new sufficient arguments to deny Apple’s request to dismiss the case.
Applicants claim that Apple has a monopoly in the cloud -based storage market for iPhones, both in terms of income and user numbers.
In context, Apple allows users of their devices to back up data such as photos, videos and other documents from their devices to any cloud storage service that they choose, but users cannot back up the basic data of the devices at these services or restore them.
Their Motion to dismissApple defended his decision to limit third -party cloud applications to access basic data, including application data and configuration, citing security reasons.
“This design decision was and has always been a feature based on security and privacy considerations, given the sensitivity of the data needed to restore the Apple device,” the company wrote.
Apple did not immediately return a comment request.
