Apple knowingly violated patent law and accepted that by offering to pay 112 million. Apple regularly violates patents and just sees it as opportunity cost, "is violating this patent cheaper than us developing it?". Which isn't fair to the patent holder, and they get away from some freebies because smaller companies don't have the resources to take the Apple giant to court.
Call it trolling, but a patent is a patent and if they made it first, Apple needs to honor that. If the shoe were on the other foot, Apple would crucify the company that violated them.