Mom told me I had to say I was sorry, but you deserved it anyway.

This. This is exactly what happened here.

No court judgment ever said it had to be an apology. It was supposed to "to dispel commercial uncertainty".

Looks as if Apple have exploited a loophole by adding to the judgment instead of simply posting it.

Well the judge who issued the order seems to feel pretty strongly that they did not comply.

The judge could be taking quite a bit of heat from Samsung… Surely Apple's lawyer division (and it must be a division by now) went through that judgment with a fine tooth comb before posting the statement.

I wonder if the judge could have added a clause requiring Apple to submit the statement to him for review first.

Right, the main goal was to make it clear to consumers that even though Apple won a EU-wide case against Samsung in Germany (which got a lot of publicity), that didn't apply in UK after they lost this court case.

Embrace, extend, extinguish?

That published statement 'dispels commercial uncertainty'? Not to a lawyer, but to the consumer who is its target order? How does it do anything except increase commercial uncertainty?

Apologize for what?