ymaddox-
Each year, my trees were all hammered by Cedar Apple Rust. Now, I know how to handle it with Immunox, but it was never necessary with my WP... WP never even showed a hint of CAR... zero, zilch, nada. Even my Liberty gets a touch without spraying.
So, for here in RI, on my WP, I do give the tree a spray of dormant oil... and then a few stink sprays to keep the deer away. And, since I bag my apples, really, that's it. So, I could see how others could get away with not spraying this tree at all. I'm quite impressed with it in this regard.
-Glenn

how is the taste and keeping of this fruit.

Like I mentioned in the other post, my first apples are on the tree now, so I can't comment on that. As for storage, my quick search says "short storage life of 6-8 weeks", but you may want to do your own research here.

I had my first crop of W.P. last summer. Flavor was very good, sort of sweet-tart as is typical of an early apple. I didn't try to keep them around very long, so can't really comment, although mine started to shrivel a bit on the countertop in just a few days. Most summer apples only keep a few weeks even in cold storage. I sliced my extra up and froze them for pies, etc.

love either a sour apple or a sweet crisp juicy one.

I have about a four year old Williams Pride on M7, now in its second year of fruit production. It grows vigorously, though it has a somewhat unruly form. The fruit here in Maryland comes in in late July. I like the taste, it is crisp and tart-sweet as mentioned, and also as mentioned it is not a fruit for keeping, but for eating, though it will last without deterioration a few weeks in the fridge. It has been very disease resistant and we get a lot of Cedar Apple Rust. But it is also very attractive to plum curculio. Glenn you may have been lucky in RI, but here in MD I have to keep the curculio off to get the apples to a size to bag. This year I used Surround, which worked well, though it tends to displace curculio to unsprayed trees. I think Williams Pride is what we might call a great 'starter' tree.

Austransplant-
You could be right about the PC. Somehow, I have been lucky and do not yet have PC in my orchard. I don't know how this is possible as this is the 4th season with apple trees in my yard, and there are crab apples near by. Is this beginners luck? Nevertheless, I'm preparing myself (by attempting to obtain the Permethrin & Imidan) this year for that eventuality. Since they have never gotten established in my orchard, I wonder if it's simply because I bag my apples and have never let them get a foothold that I haven't seen them yet? (especially around the time just before bagging) I know my local orchards 20 minutes away have to deal with PC.

If, like diseases, each variety showed more or less suceptibility to PC, it would be nice to see a chart somewhere (like they do with diseases) so that people could benefit from it.

-Glenn

To me WP is a nice summer apple. I eat maybe 3 a season although I get beautiful fruit every year. Apples are for fall and winter if you can grow stonefruit, blueberries and everything else that doesn't keep well but is delicious tree or bush ripened.