Nevertheless, the arrival of the Mac Defender trojan horse targeting Apple users has reignited the raging debate over the security of Macs versus PCs.

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For smartphones, it has lined up to be a horse race between Apple and Samsung.

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For practical purposes, the smart phone market has become a two horse race between Apple and Samsung.

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In the global race of smartphone sales, Samsung (maker of the Galaxy) is in a two-horse race with Apple (maker of the iPhone), followed by the third most popular manufacturer, Nokia (maker of the Lumia), according to data from US market research firm Strategy Analytics.

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The result is a two-horse race in which Apple appears to be seeing iPhone sales growth slow at a time when smartphones are set to become the majority of all cellphone sales.

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Apple customarily puts the horse before the cart.

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Samsung and Apple will wage an epic battle for device supremacy but could a dark horse like Amazon spoil the duopoly?

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