Samsung takes a bite of Canadian mobile device market from Apple: Ipsos

TORONTO – Move over Apple – there’s a new star in the Canadian mobile device market. Samsung has made significant gains in Canada’s smartphone and tablet device markets, according to the most recent wave of Ipsos Reid Mobil-ology, a syndicated study of the mobile market in Canada. The report, released Tuesday, found that use of Samsung handsets now matches Apple, with one-third (33%) of Canadian smartphone owners using an Apple device and three in ten (29%) using a Samsung device. Since the iPad’s release, Apple has lost some share to new entrants but presently is holding steady with just under...