Dear Friends,

Apple’s announcements at WWDC this week, which are covered below, are another step in the company’s vision of our digital future. Apple is rolling out some astounding new capabilities that will complement their products for years to come.

While these announcements will begin to impact our lives as they are rolled out, I was also quite impressed with the amazing proposed new Apple campus that Steve Jobs presented to the City of Cupertino this week. This circular 4-story building looks like an alien spaceship and will hold up to 12,000 new Apple employees. Do you think Apple is on a roll or what?

Apple did announce that the next Mac OS, Lion, will be available only from the App store, and this marks the end of OS upgrades as boxed products. While this is the end of a long history of boxed software upgrades, it is really inevitable and I think that the era of boxed software is over. Apple is the first company not only to recognize this but also to embrace it. You will need Snow Leopard to upgrade to Lion, so now might be a great time to buy that upgrade—still in a box—if you are running Leopard or Tiger. Check it out here.

Our new Hammerhead® iPad 2 cases have been arriving all week and we have been selling them quickly from our stores, and to other Apple Specialists for resale. I think you will like these new cases. You can see the entire selection at the new Hammerhead website or at Smalldog.com.