Apple was not able to narrow the scope of a UK lawsuit accusing it of locking 40 million UK consumers into iCloud, to the detriment of third-party cloud storage providers. British consumer group Which? first filed the lawsuit in late 2024, and is asking for £3 billion for UK Apple customers. Apple wanted to exclude non-paying iCloud users from the lawsuit, but the tribunal denied Apple's request in a 2 to 1 majority.
Not true. You can only install an app approved by Apple as they control who are allowed into the ecosystem in the first place. With that in mind, them promoting their first party service does give them unfair advantage.
And all the cloud backup providers have apps on the App Store already. I personally have backups going to 3 separate ones - and I don’t use Apple’s first party service lol.