U.S. judge rules Apple must face consumer lawsuit over iCloud storage

On Monday, a California federal judge ruled that Apple must face a proposed class action lawsuit alleging the company illegally monopolized the digital storage market, leading to overcharges for its iCloud service.
Mike Scarcella for Reuters:
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U.S. District Judge Eumi Lee in San Jose, California, said the plaintiffs in the case had sufficiently alleged Apple violated antitrust law by requiring iPhone customers to use its iCloud data storage service to back up core data and device setting files.
Lee’s new order revived the plaintiffs’ lawsuit after she dismissed an earlier version of it. She said the consumers added substantial new allegations about the importance of data storage for all iPhone files, including restricted ones like settings data.
A Los Angeles resident who said she was paying $2.99 monthly for an iCloud storage plan filed the lawsuit last year.
Apple allows third-party storage for photos and videos but not for some users’ data files that are needed to “restore” an Apple device.

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MacDailyNews Take: Yet another settlement looms.
MacDailyNews Note: The case is Felix Gamboa v. Apple Inc, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, No. 5:24-cv-01270.

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