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.
  • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.auEnglish
    35·
    10 days ago

    This lawsuit is going nowhere. You can literally sign up to any cloud backup provider and install their app on your iPhone.

    • BrikoX@lemmy.zipMEnglish
      11·
      5 days ago

      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.

      • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.auEnglish
        12·
        3 days ago

        You can only install an app approved by Apple as they control who are allowed into the ecosystem in the first place.

        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.

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      34·
      10 days ago

      You know you don’t have to cuck for every trillion dollar corporation, right? You can choose to advocate for consumers, or say nothing at all, at any time…