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Apple says 'free storage' part of iCloud mass suit must be struck out

By Simon Zekaria ( March 6, 2026, 15:27 GMT | Insight) -- Apple told a UK judge Friday that part of a mass damages suit alleging consumer overcharge from its iCloud service should be struck out because it targets those who used the cloud computing service but didn’t pay anything for it. In its suit, consumer-rights association Which alleges Apple abusively exploited its market dominance to lock iPhone and iPad users into using iCloud, which made it difficult to switch to or use rival cloud-storage providers.Apple told a UK judge on Friday that part of a mass damages suit alleging consumer overcharge from its cloud storage and computing system, iCloud, should be struck out because it targets those who used the service but didn’t pay anything for it....

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