There's no debating that 2009 was a banner year for iPhone news including Apple's launch of iPhone 3GS and witnessing the App Store surpassing over 100,000 apps in circulation. It was interesting and mostly mind-numbing to look back and see what were the most popular stories iPhone faithful were reading here at this highly dysfunctional web destination you all know as the iPhone Savior.
We offer our warmest thanks and appreciation to all of you for being part of our 2009 cast of readers and hope you'll find the work of our cracked team of iPhone news hounds worthy to revisit in 2010. I now present to you our almost epic list of Top 10 Most Popular Posts of 2009.
1. iPhone Developer Quits Day Job After 'iShoot' Hits Number One - In January of 2009 developer Etan Nicholas, creator of iShoot, announced he was quitting his day job at Sun Microsystems to develop iPhone apps full time. In a few short months Nicholas hauled in $600 thousand dollars from iShoot as one of the first big winners in the iPhone app gold rush.
2. An iPhone App That Can Light Up Your Tree - In the "12 Apps of Christmas" holiday iPhone Ad, Apple promoted Schlage Link as "an app that can light up the tree". It became one of the hottest Google searches overnight. We received hundreds of hits each time that ad aired in the US and the UK. A huge post!