Recent smartphone history has been dominated and distorted by a new-style search for the holy grail, the obsession of every vendor with being Apple. The off-sync timing of BlackBerry’s financial cycle has created a sad ratio in the past few years ‘ the length of the lines for the new iPhone directly proportional to the awfulness of the Canadian firm’s warnings. This time, as ‘ despite all the lackluster reviews and analyst disappointment ‘ Apple racked up a record first weekend of iPhone 5S/5c sales, BlackBerry first warned of a profits collapse and then announced a possible $4.7bn deal which would take it into private hands. Indeed, Apple sold more handsets last weekend than BlackBerry did in the whole quarter.…