Although Apple is selling iPhones like the proverbial hotcake, iOS lost market share in the worldwide smartphone market in the third quarter of 2011. What's remarkable is that sales of the iPhone actually grew during that time, according to sales information from Gartner.
As noted in a post on AppleInsider, Apple sold 17.3 million iPhones in that quarter for a market share slice of 15 percent. That makes the iPhone the third-largest smartphone platform in the world. But the market share was actually down year-to-year, with the 2010 figure at 16.6 percent.
The Android mobile operating system ate up that share, with 60.5 million smartphones sold in the third quarter of 2011 --
