There are apartments there now. They're called the Cherry Orchard Apartments. All we've got left now as far as actual commercial fruit production is a tomato packer owned by a company in New York, and a small maraschino cherry manufacturer. Both are planning to leave the Valley in the next few years. Soon all the fruit will be gone.
Computers are more profitable.
The economy in the area is certainly better with high tech that it would be in farming. The jump in land values is great if you own land. And you could argue that a lot of these farmers have been here for long enough that they can sell out for a lot of money, retire altogether or just buy more land in a cheaper area and keep farming. They don't have to farm in this particular neighborhood. We don't need farming here.