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We now have confirmation that Huawei has surpassed Apple to become the world’s second-biggest maker of smartphones: Gartner has belated weighed almost a month after IDC did, noting the same milestone. As I first reported in  Apple Delivers a Blockbuster Quarter, But…  on August 1, Apple sold about 41 million iPhones in the quarter ending June 30, flat with the year before. But IDC, at the time, provided some bad news, noting that Apple had slipped from second place, by sales, in the smartphone market to China-based Huawei, a firm that basically doesn’t even sell handsets in the United States. But now that Gartner has weighed in too, we can take a closer look at the results. Using my normal averaging model, the smartphone industry shipped about 358 million handsets in the second quarter of 2018, roughly flat with the 357.4 million it sold in the same quarter a year ago. Samsung, as usual, emerged as the number one smartphone manufacturer with 72 million units sold, good fo