I assume that means "we'll allow a clone of Apollo that claims to only help blind people, because it will get little traction with a different name and wink-win

I assume that means "we'll allow a clone of Apollo that claims to only help blind people, because it will get little traction with a different name and wink-wink advertising and the number of users who use it will be orders of magnitude less". The problem was never the API, but the lack of ad revenue.