You dumb. The apple falls straight down with relative to the observer. In this case the observer and the apple are already moving with the same velocity and direction as the earth.
In a different frame of reference like a spaceship fixed in space relative to the galactic center, you would see the apple falling with the strong parabola you describe. Both frames of reference describe the same action from two viewpoints.
It is from the glass... Notice the clouds in front of sun are identical in all the clones because it's just the same sun reflecting within the glass.
Notice the camera man seems to be high up... Like in a building with thick glass. Dumb