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Samsung Loses Top U.S. Mobile Phone Vendor Title to Apple

Apple has scored a hard-won victory in its battle with Samsung for global dominance of the smartphone market — though it may be short-lived.

Research outfit Strategy Analytics said Friday that, according to its measurements, Apple ousted Samsung to become the largest mobile phone vendor in the U.S. during the last quarter of 2012. Apple shipped 17.7 million phones in the fourth quarter of 2012, enough to capture 34 percent of the U.S. mobile phone market and, for the first time ever, to surpass Samsung, which shipped 16.8 million phones — both smart and feature phones — for a 32 percent share.

Driving the surge that pushed Apple past Samsung in market share: The company’s iOS ecosystem and the iPhone 5, which helped it rack up iPhone sales of nearly 50 million in the fourth quarter.

So, a milestone victory for Apple against an archrival on its home turf. But, as I mentioned earlier, it may prove to be a short-lived one. Samsung, which has been the top U.S. phone vendor since 2008, sold more phones than Apple did for all of 2012, shipping 53 million to Apple’s 43.7 million. And, unlike Apple, the company did not debut a new hero phone in the fall. Once it launches the rumored Galaxy S4, it could reclaim its lost title.

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Another gadget you don’t really need. Will not work once you get it home. New model out in 4 weeks. Battery life is too short to be of any use.

— From the fact sheet for a fake product entitled Useless Plasticbox 1.2 (an actual empty plastic box) placed in L.A.-area Best Buy stores by an artist called Plastic Jesus