Well, here’s a stat we think bears examination: ABI Research reckons the iPhone’s losing marketshare, claiming it accounted for 16.6 percent of smartphone sales in Q4 - down from 18.1 percent in the third.Now - let’s be clear here - that’s Apple's healthy marketshare slice of a rapidly booming market. We all know there's a smartphone market explosion going on right now that’s forcing carriers worldwide to ramp up their networks to properly handle the traffic demanded by the new and smarter phonesApple sold 8.7 million iPhones in the fourth quarter, and that's 18% more than in the quarter before. However, ABI notes, the overall smartphone market grew 26% in the same period of time, boosted by launches from Google (Android) an
