I look forward to reading the judge's "Bell the Cat" interpretation of antitrust law.
"If there has been a per se violation of antitrust laws one must consider if the conspirators were acting to prevent a market leader from increasing their market share and potentially, hypothetically sometime in the future performing their own per se violation of antitrust laws. If that was potentially the case then the rule of reason needs to be used to consider if there was a consumer benefit of the original per se violation."
Maybe Apple will win the appeal and then appeal the ruling.