The American court refuses Apple’s request to reject the antitrust case concerning iCloud

A California district court on Monday denied An Apple request to throw a collective appeal which alleges that the iPhone manufacturer violates competition laws by forcing users of its devices to save their critical files and their device parameters on its cloud storage service, iCloud.

The complaint also accuses Apple of not allowing third -party cloud services to access certain files and preventing them from providing “full service” storage that competes with iCloud.

The American district judge Eumi Lee had previously rejected the case, saying that the complainants were not sufficiently expressed of complaints. The complainants then filed a second modification Complaint earlier this yearAnd the judge noted that the new arguments sufficient to refuse the request of Apple to reject the case.

The complainants claim that Apple has a monopoly on the cloud -based storage market for iPhones, both in terms of income and user numbers.

For the context, Apple allows users of its devices to back up data such as photos, videos and other documents of their devices at any cloud storage service of their choice, but users cannot back up the basic data of the devices to these services or restore them.

In his Rejection RequestApple has defended its decision to limit third -party cloud applications from access to basic data, including application data and device parameters, citing security reasons.

“This design decision was and has always been a characteristic based on security and confidentiality considerations, given the sensitivity of the data necessary to restore its apple device,” wrote the company.

Apple did not immediately return a comment request.