The Google hath spoken.
The "consumer tech" that people were most interested in in 2015 was the iPhone 6S, according to the sheer volume of Google searches.
Meanwhile, Google's own Nexus 6P flagship smartphone was ninth in the list.
It's not really too surprising.
Apple's iPhones are consistently reviewed as the best smartphones year after year, and people typically want to know what Apple's going to come up with next to make the next iPhone even better than last year's model.
This year, we had several rumors we wanted to see Apple confirm or deny at its September iPhone announcement.
Rumors were flying about a new kind of screen, which turned out to the be 3D Touch display.
Then there were rumors of some kind of 3D dual-camera from notorious Apple blogger, John Gruber. In the end, we saw a much more reasonable camera spec-bump from eight megapixels to 12, but it also came with a nifty feature called Live Photos, which captures seconds before and after each shot so you can revisit those moments when you look at your photos.
And we also wanted to see if Apple was going to use a fancy new type of metal that wouldn't bend as easily as the iPhone 6 did. Indeed, Apple's new iPhone is extremely hard to bend!
Interest and search volume of the iPhone 6S was lukewarm until around July, according to data from Google searches over the past year.
Around Apple's early September iPhone announcement event, iPhone 6S searches spiked dramatically, then dropped off soon after the event.
Let's see if Apple can stay on top of Google's search lists in 2016 when it unveils what we presume will be the "iPhone 7."
On February 28, Axel Springer, Business Insider's parent company, joined 31 other media groups and filed a $2.3 billion suit against Google in Dutch court, alleging losses suffered due to the company's advertising practices.
