I came across an interesting statistic doing research on the iPhone application category hierarchy.
Based on July 2009 figures from O’reilly research, Games by far was the leading application category with a  21% share of unique apps.  Entertainment, Books, Utilities, and Education follow Games to round out the top 5 most popular categories.  The biggest surprise was the huge popularity of the News category with a whopping 253% increase from 12 weeks prior.

Why is News so popular and what does this mean?  Well, it probably means more and more users like to get …