Despite an unfortunate typo in the subheading of market research firm Juniper Research's press release that reads million with an "M," the company has found that smartphone shipments for the full year last year reached 1.4 billion units. That figure is up from the estimated 1.2 billion smartphones shipped in the prior year, but you wouldn't know it to look at Juniper's breakdown by company. In fact, the only major global player in the smartphone market that saw any real growth at all in 2015 was... you guessed it... Apple . DON'T MISS:- 6 ways Android outshines my iPhone 6s Before we get to the numbers, the following chart shows

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