U.K. consumer rights group 'Which?' is filing a legal claim against Apple under competition law on behalf of some 40 million users of iCloud, its cloud
That is only true if other apps have the same operating system access as iCloud. If others apps can’t perform the same actions because of vendor lock in, that’s anticompetitive monopolistic behavior. Apple already failed to dismiss identical lawsuit in US, so the lawsuit is at least valid on its face.
Issue is that 3rd party apps doesn’t have the same system access as iCloud. So you can’t use any other cloud the same way you can iCloud. So by definition that’s anticompetitive, since you have no options.
That is only true if other apps have the same operating system access as iCloud. If others apps can’t perform the same actions because of vendor lock in, that’s anticompetitive monopolistic behavior. Apple already failed to dismiss identical lawsuit in US, so the lawsuit is at least valid on its face.
What can’t you do on Dropbox that you can do with iCloud?
Dropbox seems to behave the same in Finder; you can add tags, organise, etc.
Isn’t Finder a macOS app? Lawsuit is only about iOS.
Sorry I didn’t actually read it.
Yes Finder is the macOS analogue of the iOS Files app. As far as I can see Dropbox and Files are pretty similar too. iOS Dropbox lacks tags, though.
Sounds like Which‘s beef is with photo syncing. They think that the Photos app should be able to sync with clouds other than iCloud…?
Issue is that 3rd party apps doesn’t have the same system access as iCloud. So you can’t use any other cloud the same way you can iCloud. So by definition that’s anticompetitive, since you have no options.