I just use the subscriptions in Safari. The only non-primary Apple blogs I subscribe to are Re/Code and The Verge.
There's a lot of other great tech websites out there, I just don't want to be subjected to every little article about little things. I already have all the hardware I want, I just want to read about new things that'll push it farther.
And I found that using s RSS reader doesn't really make any sense. Most tech "news" happens during the day, isn't something that accumulates maybe more than 10 news stories on any given day, and you never read the full story most of the time.
Reeder is very good though. I used it until I realized how much time I was wasting marking things as read and dealing with half working feeds that were nothing more than links to the full story and other articles.