Actually, we build our own reality. So in the life of the OP him buying the iPad is more significant an event than SJ conceiving it or Apple making it. Beside

Actually, we build our own reality. So in the life of the OP him buying the iPad is more significant an event than SJ conceiving it or Apple making it. Besides his grandkids would be far more interested in what he did and chose. We are the stars of the movie of our lives. Unless we choose to make someone else the hero.