Two interesting articles today: one from Macworld that tells us that according to research firm Canalys, Android is the best-selling smartphone OS in the world with 32.5 percent of the global market. Nokia is second with 30.6 percent. Apple is third with 16, with RIM (Blackberry) after that. But I don’t think Apple will be weeping any tears, because of the second story that came out.

There’s been a lot of talk lately—mostly by people who won’t get fired if their opinion is wrong—about how the iPhone is going to go the way of the Mac. What they mean, though, is the alternate history of the ’90s favored by tech analysts where Apple went out of business. Because while in our reality, where not only Apple but the Macintosh itself is doing better than ever, for tech analysts the Mac/PC battle ended when Apple didn’t decide to make ultracheap licensed clone netbooks that still came with diskette drives.

In various models, the iPhone has been on the market for about three years now. However, in that time they’ve managed to go from the initial announcement and launch of their first phone to a must-have device for any tech geek and Apple fanboy. They’ve even managed to completely embarrass RIM, Nokia, HTC, Sony Ericsson, and others. According to data from Goldman Sachs, Apple, in the light blue, has clearly surpassed all the other companies combined in terms of handset profit.

Up until this point, Apple’s iPhone has been the only mobile touch screen device that has been worth buying. However, a new Blackberry from RIM may soon change that for many smart phone users. The Blackberry Storm, which has no release date yet, appears to be a direct shot at both Apple and the iPhone. With a large touch screen, nice camera, and even GPS, is this the first mobile device that will be able to compete with the iPhone in the touch screen market? Early predictions point to yes.

Interestingly enough, the Storm does beat out the iPhone is some important aspects. For example…

Net Applications, an online company that is geared towards finding the market shares of various companies, has found that Mac OS X is in second place for operating systems with a 7.94% share. Let’s just round and bring that up to 8%, alright? The only operating system beating Mac OS X is obviously Windows with more »