Apple May Be Cornered By Samsung on its Home Turf

Samsung’s Galaxy S IV may be the biggest worry on the horizon for Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and could further boost Samsung ahead of the iPhone-maker in the global smartphone market.

The smartphone market has been growing and growing since the first iPhone came out, and new markets for the intelligent little devices have been popping up all around the world, but when Samsung joined in on all the fun, Apple quickly found itself faced with a strong competitor.

Recently, Samsung has even been overtaking Apple. Samsung is outselling Apple in China, which is the world’s largest smartphone market, and globally Samsung comes out on top with more than double the sales of Apple in the fourth quarter of 2012 and 2011, which comes in at third, according to Gartner…