Nice ones go to the stand, regular ones go to the store, damaged to the mill to be turned into cider.
You can shake them off the tree but they will all be bruised and you can not sell a bruised apple for fifty cents no matter how you polish it. With cider by the time you pay for press time and the bottles you are just about breaking even.
When a crop can be harvested all at once then a machine can be used especially when when the condition of the crop does not matter things like corn, wheat or many other grains, huge combines are used but vegetables and fruits I don’t see how a machine could do that
When the WEF-engineered famine hits, you will be able to sell a bruised apple for $5,000.