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Apples are propagated by grafting because the fruit are not true to seed. If you plant a seed, you have no idea what the fruit will be like. So they take known good trees and graft a part of them onto existing root stock of a compatible tree.
So breeding isn't really a thing for apples.
Huh. I am now smarter. Thanks!