Dear Friends,

There was a micro-storm at my house that caused some macro damage to some trees and resulted in 2-inch hail with accumulated ice on my deck. When I got home, it looked more like October than July with leaves all over the place. But, it is July and the summer storm passed and the garden actually liked the torrential rain.

Apple announced their quarterly financial results this week and you will see my recap and analysis below in this issue of Kibbles & Bytes. I am very very proud to be an Apple Specialist and a part of this amazing success story. Apple is continuing to grow but is still acting like an entrepreneurial company—which I feel has a lot to do with their success.

I am often asked why I named Small Dog Electronics as Small Dog, and my answer has always been that my most enjoyable times, most productive times and the times that we have been able to truly live up to our triple bottom line of people, planet and profit is when we have that small company, entrepreneurial spirit and energy. We strive to maintain that and during our periodic performance evaluations of our employees, we have a whole section that just talks about entrepreneurial focus.

Apple has shown that they can maintain that spirit and still be a $50 billion company. When we grow up…