Objective-C/iPhone Memory Management Static Variables

Question

I have a static method that creates an instance of the class and puts it in the static variable. I am wondering what the proper way of memory management is in this situation

Answer 1

You can either not release them, which is fine since the app is shutting down anyway. Cocoa on the iPhone already does this, it doesn't completely delete everything, it just lets the app get blown away.

Or you can delete it from appWillTerminate or some other shutdown function.