iPhone, Android reign supreme heading into 2014

Apple's smartphone market share had a 41.6-percent average during the three months ended January 2014, while Android snagged 51.7 percent of the US mobile market.

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Apple and Google are tops in the mobile space, new data from research firm ComScore shows.

Apple's iPhone snagged 41.6 percent mobile market share in the US during the three months ended January 2014, according to ComScore. That figure is an average of the three months, and bests the 40.6 percent average Apple posted in October 2013. Samsung came in the second spot with 26.7 percent share, while LG came in third at 6.9 percent.

Despite its popularity, Apple couldn't quite catch Google on the operating system side, ComScore reported. Android led the market with 51.7 percent share during the period, beating out iOS at 41.6 percent. Windows Phone and BlackBerry OS followed the leaders with 3.2 percent and 3.1 percent share, respectively.

That Android and the iPhone are both popular is perhaps no surprise to the average mobile user. However, it's worth noting that while the iPhone saw its market share jump one percentage point over the last quarter, Samsung's market share jumped 1.3 percentage points. One other interesting note: Android's US market share was down .5 percentage points.

In addition to examining popular hardware and operating systems, ComScore reported on the top destinations for mobile browsers. Google's sites were visited by nearly 90 percent of US mobile users, followed by Facebook at 87 percent. Yahoo and Amazon came up next with 86.2 percent and 69 percent visitation share, respectively.

One other interesting tidbit: the Facebook mobile app was most popular in the US last quarter, employed by 78 percent of users.

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