Apple, Google and to a lesser extent RIM were the biggest winners for smartphone market share in 2009, according to Gartner's final end-of-year study. The three saw the fastest growth in share; RIM had the largest absolute share, moving up to 19.9 percent and second place with the BlackBerry line, but Apple and Google each grew faster. Apple jumped from just 8.2 percent of smartphones in 2008 to 14.4 percent for all of last year, while Android surged from just half a point through its late 2008 launch to 3.9 percent for all of 2009.
