In the US, Apple ended 2012 as the top OEM and it has only further increased its lead with the start of the New Year. Apple has once again increased its share in first place, and Samsung is gaining as well. Rounding out the top five are HTC, Motorola, and LG. In the platform space, Google is still first courtesy of Android, Apple is second with iOS, but the latter is gaining on the former. In fact, Apple’s gains in the hardware space were so large recently that not only did iOS gain significantly but Android took a hit. Again, rounding out the top five are BlackBerry, Microsoft, and Symbian. The latest data comes from comScore, which as usual surveyed over 30,000 mobile subscribers in the US (for the second time, it has limited its results to just smartphones, indicating the rest of the market simply doesn’t matter anymore). The analytics firm says 129.4 Americans owned smartphones (55 percent mobile market penetration) in January, up 7 percent since October. Between those two months, here is how the top five smartphones OEMs have fared: As you can see, Apple gained 3.5 percentage points in terms of smartphone subscribers (from 34.3 percent to 37.8 percent) while Samsung jumped 1.9 percentage points (from 19.5 percent to 21.4 percent). HTC fell 1.7 points (from 11.4 percent to 9.7 percent), Motorola dropped 1.4 percentage points (from 10.0 percent to 8.6 percent), and LG managed to gain 0.3 percentage points (from 6.7 percent to 7.0 percent). Samsung and Apple
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