For the first time, Apple has ousted Ontario-based RIM from the top spot for smartphone shipments in Canada, reports Bloomberg.
In 2011, RIM shipped 2.08 million BlackBerrys in its home market. Apple’s figures for the same period were 2.85 million units, as per data compiled by IDC and Bloomberg.
In 2010, the difference between BlackBerry and iPhone shipments was half a million, in favor of BlackBerry.
iPhone’s increasing popularity in Canada is a clear indication that people in Canada are …

According to the Taiwanese manufacturers of cellular phones and components, based on the orders received by them for the first quarter of 2011, companies like Apple, RIM and HTC will be shipped 19-20, 14-15 and 8-9 million handsets, respectively. It is easy to calculate that the total figure is about half the projected market size, equal to 80-85 million units, reports digitimes.
The first place among is surely retained by Nokia, but the company at the second place will be Apple, which will …