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Meade were always going to lose this one, their description of a non-RC scope as an "advanced" RC scope was never going to hold up in Court. That they even tried to do this is disappointing from a business ethics point of view.
I suspect there will be more litigation if Meade now try to say it performs "just like" an RC. It clearly doesn't, it has chromatic aberration due to the corrector plate and considerably "blobbier" stars according to the dot patterns I have seen. What it really is is an improved SCT and it should be marketed as such.
As for APO's, colour correction is a question of degree. There is no such thing as a completely colour-free refractor and I don't know any modern APO that meets the original strict definition of an apochromatic scope. APO's, or near-APO's or semi-APO's are desirable for visual as well as photography. Colour-free, or at least colour-reduced, viewing is attractive for its own sake on bright objects and you get improved resolution and constrast because light is not being "smeared" across the focus point as in an achro.
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