Apple emerges top mobile vendor in the US

Apple's financial result for its 13-week fiscal 2013 first quarter ended December 29, 2012 has helped push the company ahead of Samsung as the top mobile phone maker in the U.S. for the first time ever, according to Strategy Analytics. That’s for all mobile phones, not just smartphones, with the Cupertino-based firm selling a whopping 17.7 million iPhones during Q4 2012 versus Samsung’s 16.8 million. Together the two companies accounted for 66% of the market.