Quite right, Duckie. Miraculous is correct. The chances of Apple gaining any appreciable market share at Amazon's expense are IMHO approaching zero. Not because it is impossible (though it is very difficult), but because Apple is simply not interested in doing what is necessary to compete.
As the Appeals Court so eloquently put things in the course of actually considering Apple's arguments had a rule of reason approach been applied:
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In short, Apple and the dissent err first in equating a symptom (a single‐retailer market) with a disease (a lack of competition), and then err again by prescribing the disease itself as the cure.
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Apple was not interested in competing with Amazon then and there is no evidence whatsoever that it is interested in doing so now. Nor is there anything whatsoever to indicate that Apple has any prospect of doing so successfully.