Apple's contention (whether true or not) was that they were perfectly happy to pay the licensing terms, but Nokia wanted a patent cross-licensing agreement instead. Apple said no, since Nokia's patents were transferred to the GSM consortium they have to grant the license as a fee only to anyone and can not single out Apple and force them to do a cross-license deal instead. If Apple wanted to do a cross-license deal instead, that would be fine, but Apple doesn't want that. Apple has been arguing that since Nokia is not letting them license the patents in the way required for patents in the GSM pool, they will wait until a court tells Nokia that they cannot try to force different terms on Apple.