I think it is pretty clear that Apple's reading is the most obvious reading of that sentence. At the same time I do believe that this reading wasn't the intend

I think it is pretty clear that Apple's reading is the most obvious reading of that sentence. At the same time I do believe that this reading wasn't the intended one, so the law was badly written. What makes court battles about this so annoying is that it turns laws from, in this case, rules about ethical businesses into word games.