the progression we live in

Everything around us is a product of the evolution inherent in nature and man-made objects. You are only here as a result of millions of years of refinement. The computer or device on which you are reading this article is simply the bettering of yesterday's technology, all built upon a few inventions which have allowed us humans to create these pieces of what seem like magic.

As I mentioned previously, I have recently become the proud owner of an iPad 3. This incredible tablet was not dreamed up out of thin air, but a culmination in Steve Jobs's mind of what could be done with the electronics, circuitry, and not so amazing battery technology that has been painstakingly created before.

I have very briefly spoken of the beauty to be found in the copying of ideas, and advances in using them in games development, but truth be told this phenomena is persistent in all facets of our life. There is nothing that we use that hasn't existed in a lesser form, even the simple A4 sheet of paper that is still annoyingly present in our day to day was once rougher, or even further back, the trees with which they are made were nothing like they are today.

Recently this remarkable part of our world which we all take for granted has intrigued me more than ever. I have made a real effort to stop and appreciate what I have access to as the result of the legends who lived before me, or the truly fascinating process of natural evolution. Also though, more than ever I want to be one of the brilliant minds whom changes the formula, disturbs the accepted routine, and whom is eventually regarded as one of the great people who didn't just exist in life, but altered it.

it's resolutionary

Since being so lucky as to receive an iPad, the new iPad that is, I have thought about nothing much else. I have un-begrudgingly spent money on apps, a new cover, and magazines. I am not this sort of person to obsess over such a thing, but then again, perhaps I truly am. When I was gifted my very first Macbook I once again found myself enamoured and over-awed. Same with my first iPod Video, or the iPod Touch.

It seems Apple has a hold over me, and I find myself wondering why this company has such an ability to do that. I must admit from the outset, I have once before been rather consumed by a product that was not an Apple product; it was in fact my new gaming PC, which I am using to type this out right now. There was much excitement that came with building my new powerful PC, with the justification (and rightly so) that I needed something more powerful to run these 3D engines I am now using to develop games.

However, Apple products are irrefutably different. The whole process, from buying it to having the item set up exactly how you want it, is a pure joy. I am sat here, with this ridiculously beautiful tablet, and it feels as though I would be happy despite anything else going on. I also know from experience, this high lasts. It doesn't evaporate into mundane normality, but instead it lingers, and whenever you use your iPod, or iPad, or Macbook, you have a sense of pride, and you build a relationship with it.

People who read this and think I'm a fool clearly have never owned an Apple product, because you would almost definitely understand if you had. There may be one or two who never succumbed to the allure of their offerings, but they prove to few and far between. I needn't think about those people, with whom I can relate very little. Instead, I will sit here for a bit longer, absorbing the magnificence of my beautiful; 'new' iPad.