Dear Friends,

We have finally gotten some warmer weather here in the Green Mountains, but my road is still stuck in Vermont’s 5th season—mud season. It has been the worst and longest mud season in my memory. Nevertheless, the trees have buds, the grass is growing and the lingering piles of snow in my yard are rapidly melting and revealing some serious yard work that I need to do.

Apple has now officially surpassed Microsoft in almost all financial reporting categories as their quarterly profit exceeded Microsoft’s for the first time since 1995. Apple’s $5.99 Billion in profit topped Microsoft’s $5.23 Billion for the same period. Apple is now clearly the most valuable technology company on the planet.  

The elusive White iPhone 4 is now shipping and we should have stock at our retail stores as we speak. We are an AT&T authorized retailer and offer the iPhone (in both black and white) at all of our retail locations.

I want to give a shout out in Kibbles & Bytes to our very first employee, Art Hendrickson, who has recently passed his 15-year anniversary with Small Dog Electronics. Artie has filled many roles here at Small Dog, and is one of the few employees who can probably do just about any job here. I remember well the long debates that Hapy and I had when we first considered hiring Art.  We were really concerned that we would not have enough work to fill his time. Silly us—Art hit the ground running and hasn’t stopped running since. We know it would take at least a couple of people to replace his productivity. Attaboy Artie! We gave him a watch when he hit 10 years at Small Dog, but this time it will be something orange (his favorite color)!