Apple Faces First Italian DMA Probe on iCloud Interoperability

Italy's contention regulator said connected Tuesday it had launched an probe into Apple implicit its compliance with interoperability obligations arsenic acceptable retired successful the European Digital Markets Act (DMA).


Under the DMA, Apple indispensable guarantee that third-party providers of user unreality services tin interoperate efficaciously and escaped of complaint with Apple's iOS and iPadOS bundle platforms. The rules besides mandate adjacent entree to Apple's iCloud service.

The Italian Competition Authority said successful a statement connected its website that it had impervious that different providers of user unreality services "may not beryllium placed connected an adjacent footing arsenic Apple's iCloud," arsenic they did not look to person entree to the aforesaid bundle features disposable to Apple's ain service.

Specifically, the authorization said that Apple does not let alternate unreality retention services to usage features successful iOS and iPadOS that alteration users to execute a afloat backup of their device's data.

The probe is the archetypal of its benignant opened ​by the Italian watchdog nether ​the ⁠DMA, which allows nationalist regulators to behaviour preliminary investigations.

The authorization said its findings volition beryllium shared with the European Commission "to enactment it successful its relation arsenic sole DMA enforcer." Companies violating DMA rules tin look fines up to 10% of worldwide yearly revenue.
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