SOMEBODY’S LOSS is somebody else’s gain. Steve Job’s demise was a big loss for Apple Inc and to the tech world. But in the business world, with Jobs’ absence, Samsung gained maximum out of it. Jobs who has been the key player in the patent fight with Samsung, did all he could to retain what belonged to the company.

As per research conducted by Milton Keynes-based Strategy Analytics, though Samsung does not have an impressive quarterly results record, it has managed to ship 27.8 million smartphones in the last quarter thus taking a giant leap in the smartphone market by 23.8 per cent. Apple on the hand, shipped only 17.1 million phones despite launching the iPhone 4S that was expected to boost sales for the company.

Another leading competitor in the smartphones market, Nokia lags closely behind in terms of percentage of tapping the global smartphones market when compared with Apple. Apple accounted for only 14.6 per cent whereas Nokia holds 14.4 per cent, a figure that has taken a dip for the latter when compared with its last quarter results.

However, there's tough competition ahead and one needs to see what Tim Cook cooks in the highly secretive office of the Apple Inc headquarters. Samsung, which capitalises on the Google Android platform, may see higher sales in the next quarter as it launches the Galaxy Nexus in collaboration with Google - a clear nexus formalised by Google and Samsung to take on their arch rival Apple.