Four ways of looking at Apple's 2013 iPhone salesIDC, CIRP and Canalys all issued new smartphone market reports this week.
<p>FORTUNE -- A few hours after Apple (AAPL) released its quarterly results Monday -- giving market researchers the only hard sales numbers they are likely to get from any smartphone manufacturer this quarter -- IDC released the chart at right, dutifully updated with the new iPhones sales number (51 million).</p>
<p>"Apple posted record shipment volume during 4Q13," according to IDC's press release, "driven primarily by
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Four ways of looking at Apple's 2013 iPhone sales