The decision was sort of the reverse of that. The EU got the technicalities right but didn't provide enough actual evidence. To quote the article, "While the

The decision was sort of the reverse of that. The EU got the technicalities right but didn't provide enough actual evidence. To quote the article, "While the court expressed sympathy with the Commission that the Irish Revenue agreements with Apple lacked detail and rigour, because the Commission didn’t produce evidence of the appropriate counterfactual, the procedural failings on the part of Irish Revenue were insufficient in and of themselves to evidence an aid." That's hardly Apple getting off on technicalities. They won because there was no evidence of wrongdoing.