Dear Friends,

It is now officially autumn and while I do see a few trees with some color starting, the fall foliage season which draws thousands of leaf peepers to Vermont seems like it will be a little later than normal this year. We have had some unusually warm weather and not much rain so my guess is that it will be peak foliage sometime in the 2nd week of October this year.

Apple followed up the release of iOS 9 with the release of WatchOS 2.0 this week. I will go over some of the new features in the latest watch release but it may be a little while before we see the full impact as the most major upgrade is that the watch is now able to use native Apps and developers will be releasing new tools to make the Apple Watch even more useful.

It seems that iOS 9 is being adopted at an amazing rate. It was reported that in the first 3 days of the release over 50% of active devices had been updated and are taking advantage of the new iOS 9 features. The new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus are shipping this week, too. Some shipments were delayed in Washington, New York and Philadelphia however, due to traffic restrictions related to the Pope’s visit this week.

The six-pack Chill Pill speaker special was so successful last week that we are going to hold it over for one more week!

This week’s Kibbles & Bytes exclusive is a six-pack of our famous Chill Pill mobile speakers. These compact “transformer” speakers produce big sound in a small package and have a built-in rechargeable battery. Normally, these sell for $29.99 each but for this week only for Kibbles & Bytes readers you can get 2 black, 2 white and 2 Red Chill Pill Speakers for the cost of one!