A bite of the apple

I just saw a new ad for iPhone. In the ad, a woman uses her iPhone to record her baby’s first steps and then share it with her family and friends:

So let me get this straight: her son learns to walk. She makes a video. She uses this great way to share that video with her family and friends.

Yet it’s implied in some quarters that my doing the exact same thing three years ago (sans iPhone) was some kind of plea of attention, a quest for fame or money, or that I had some other ulterior motive. Truthfully, this was what I did. Holden had learned to walk only days before. I happened to get him dancing on my Kodak Z740 camera (the focus is blown; we need to get a new camera) and I shared it the way I’d always shared videos: on YouTube. That’s all it was, all it ever was.

And now it’s become a story that we’ll get to tell the rest of our lives at birthday parties. It’ll be in my obituary. This simple little 29-second home movie of Holden happy to be mobile enough to race with his sister in the kitchen (something they do just about every night to this day). And now it has over a million hits.

Astounding.

And apparently Apple-icious as well.