As it has for several quarters now, Apple continues to trail the overall smartphone market's booming growth, with the company's 16.8 percent year-over-year growth in the first quarter registering as the lowest among top five vendors in a market that grew by 28.6 percent as a whole, according to a new report from research firm IDC. Market leader Samsung also trailed the broader market's growth as Huawei, Lenovo, and LG all jockeyed for position in the closely contested third through fifth spots in the rankings. Worldwide smartphone shipments in 1Q14 in millions of units (Source: IDC)Apple reached a new first quarter record, breaching the 40 million unit mark. The company saw double-digit growth in Japan as well as acr
