Monday is a district court in California Has been refused The iPhone Maker complains that Apple’s request for throwing a class action litigation violates the competition law by forcing users of his devices to back up their cloud storage services, ICloud their critical files and devices settings.
The complaint also complained to not allowing Apple to access the third party cloud services specific files and to prevent a “full-will-serving” storage that competes with the iCloud.
US District Judge Imi Lee had previously dismissed the case, the plaintiffs did not claim enough. The plaintiffs then filed a second amendment Alleged at the beginning of this yearAnd the judge found enough to deny Apple’s request to dismiss the new argument.
The plaintiff has claimed that Apple has the exclusive right to the cloud-based storage market for iPhones in terms of revenue and user number.
For context, Apple allows users of its devices to back up data like photos, videos and other documents on any cloud storage service from their devices, but users cannot backup the basic data of the devices in these services.
In DismissalApple protects the decision to limit third -party cloud applications from original data access with application data and device settings by quoting the reasons for security.
The company wrote, “This design was a decision and always a feature based on the consideration of protection and privacy, whose data sensitivity was given to recover the Apple device,” the company wrote.
Apple did not immediately return any request for the comment.