Apple's share of the smartphone market has drawn much closer to that of BlackBerry creator RIM in the past year, IDC found in a study today. Apple had the fastest growth of all major smartphone makers and jumped from 11.2 percent in late 2008 to 16 percent in late 2009. Its shipments also almost exactly doubled from 4.4 million iPhones a year ago to 8.7 million in the fall.
