It does count as salted fruit. I should have specified "Dried, salted fruit", plums (saladitos) and apricots (chamoy). Some people call all of it saladitos.
As kids, the stores had them in a jar by the register, like 3 for a nickel. So dry they resembled leather, kinda like beef jerky used to be. Like beef jerky is now, there is an unfamiliar moisture content from something sprayed on them.
Really have to go out of your way to find them truly dry-dry now.