Italy's antitrust regulator probes Apple over cloud services

Italy's competition regulator said ​on Tuesday it had opened an investigation ‌into Apple over compliance with interoperability obligations, under the European Digital Markets Act.

Under the ​rules, Apple must ensure that third-party ​providers of consumer cloud services can ⁠inter-operate effectively and free of charge ​with hardware and software components controlled through ​the group's iOS and iPadOS operating systems, and have equal access as Apple's iCloud service.

The ​authority said in the statement that ​it had proof that other providers of consumer cloud ‌services ⁠could not be in the same position as iCloud, as they did not appear to have access to the ​same components ​used or ⁠made available to Apple’s service.

The probe is the first opened ​by the Italian watchdog under ​the ⁠Digital Markets Act, which allows national regulators to conduct preliminary investigations.

The authority said ⁠the ​results of its investigation ​would be sent to the EU Commission.

-Reuters