Apple’s antitrust battles with the European Union are many and varied, and it may now be facing yet another one. Italy’s competition regulator has today opened an investigation into whether Apple illegally preferences iCloud over third-party cloud services – and says it will be sending a report to the EU Commission … Apple’s antitrust battles Apple is facing antitrust actions in a great many countries around the world. In the past couple of years, it has paid fines totaling almost $3 billion for breaches of various competition laws. The company has generally adopted a tough line in responding to antitrust accusations. It has rarely admitted wrongdoing, and in some cases has said it would rather partially or wholly withdraw from a market than comply with the demands of regulators. In the case of the Apple Intelligence features in iOS 27, for example, the company has not made these available within the first developer beta inside EU countries.…