honeycrisp are good, I just like the sourness and crunch of a granny smith over the sweetness of a honeycrisp .

granny smith have a great taste but are more often mealy than not in my experience. Honeycrip is one of the only breed of apple that is almost always crisp and it's also a good balance between sour and sweet

new strains to market to sell more apples, that’s it, that’s the entire idea. and so in this pursuit of infinite growth they act like short sighted idiots who run off the cliff edge. once you remove the profit motive, there is no reason to forcibly ‘innovate’ constantly

Is it just a problem of having too many types of apples that nobody needs or is that making them more vulnerable to diseases? I genuinely don't know much about how apple farms work at all.