Android surpasses 70% OS Market Share – 72% to be exact, Apple at 13%.

As reported by Gartner earlier today, Apple is behind both Samsung AND Nokia for total mobile device sales, however Samsung and Apple remain the top smartphone vendors collectively capturing over 46% of the market. This placed RIM and HTC behind Apple and Samsung in 3rd and 4th positions.   “Samsung’s mobile phones sales continued to accelerate, totaling almost 98 million units in the third quarter of 2012 (see Table 1), up 18.6 percent year-on-year. Samsung saw strong demand for Galaxy smartphones across different price points, and it further widened the gap with Apple in the smartphone market, selling 55 million smartphones in the third quarter of 2012. It commanded 32.5 percent of the global smartphone market in the third quarter of 2012.”     “Apple’s sales to end users totaled 23.6 million units in the third quarter of 2012, up 36.2 percent year-on-year. “We saw inventory built up into the channel as Apple prepared for the coming holiday season, global expansions and the launch into China in the fourth quarter of...