Buying fruit to crop in the first year

One of our neighbours has given us some back copies of Gardeners' World and I was interest to read an article in the February 2013 issue entitled Fast Fruit.  In our experience fruit is not usually 'fast' but I was gratified to find that we had followed the advice in this piece without knowing it:

• Choose pot grown apples.  Ours were quite expensive and came in large pots.  Both are now ready to come into blossom.  It's cold up here so I hope they don't opening out during another early frost. 
• Don't prune your blackcurrants after planting.  We didn't.  These also are now beginning to flower and I am happy to see that we bought one variety the article recommends - 'Ben Connan'.
• Buy summer fruiting raspberries as long canes.  Well, they weren't exactly long, but long enough to have buds which are now beginning to develop.  Both raspberries and blackcurrants get sun for some periods of the day.
• Strawberries.  We thought about these and didn't buy any in the end.  However, the ornamental small strawberries that grew in the border we turned into a veg patch are beginning to reappear and should look decorative if not tasty.

There's plenty of food for thought in this magazine, so maybe I'll be inspired to begin a mini-series - salads all year round or pot grown vegetables might be my next choices.