Apps Schmapps, What Were the Hottest iPhone Dev Shops in 2009?

Earlier this week we released our list of the 100 Most Talked About iPhone Apps of 2009. Bart Decrem at Tapulous spotted the list (he had three related apps in the top 100 - Tap Tap Revenge Classic at #13, Tap Tap Revenge 3 at #20, and Tap Tap Revenge 2.6 at #44) and pinged us to see (in the spirit of friendly competition) where Tap Tap Revenge would rank if these three apps were rolled up as a franchise. Ian ran the query and, unsurprisingly, the Tap Tap family came out as the #1 most talked about (when considered as a collection).

This got us thinking: since we have a ranking for every app, and we know which apps were produced by which studio, wouldn’t it be interesting to see which were the Most Talked About iPhone Developers of 2009? We’re *supposed* to be working on a major release and the query was kind of a hack, so we didn’t spin up a landing page for it, but we have the answer: The most-talked-about iPhone shops of 2009 were…

1. Gameloft
2. Electronic Arts
3. Chillingo
4. ngmoco
5. Namco Networks America
6. Firemint
7. Tapulous
8. Konami Digital Entertainment
9. Digital Chocolate
10. IUGO Mobile Entertainment

Bart, thanks for getting our wheels turning on this, and congrats again on a huge 2009 for Tapulous!