If you have an iPhone, you need an iCloud account. This is the fee to be paid for accessing Apple services, including iCloud. If you do not log out, after a few days the famous “iCloud Space Almost Full” message will appear; This is inevitable, considering that passwords, messages, emails and all data related to Apple’s native applications do their job. Copy to iCloud.

As reported by Bloomberg Law, Apple is facing a new class-action lawsuit. The main reason for this is unfair competition resulting from the implementation of restrictions that prevent customers from using alternative backup services to iCloud.

The class-action lawsuit, led by the law firm of Hagens Berman (which has already filed numerous antitrust lawsuits against Apple), calls Apple’s iCloud-related practices “unreasonable and unfair.” First of all, they explain Apple limits backups of Apple devices to iCloud.

According to Berman, “Apple’s restrictions on cloud storage violate the Sherman Act and are therefore ‘illegal’ under the UCL (California Unfair Competition Law).”

Third party applications; Passwords cannot access local app data and settings, such as iMessage or a full backup of the device itself. Everything has to go through iCloud.

“Apple device owners have 5GB of free iCloud storage, but as Apple’s revenue from the service shows, most users They think it’s insufficient for their storage needs and purchase an additional plan in iCloud.”

According to the lawsuit, Apple Inc is “rigging the competitive playing field” on cloud services by “unnecessarily restricting the storage of certain files to the iCloud platform.” This point mostly refers to backup copies of games that need to go through iCloud.

This would allow Apple “to charge higher fees in the absence of any real threat to the dominance of iCloud” and prevent real competition and free action from its rivals.

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