The last three months of the year usually see increased smartphone sales, and that helped Samsung increase its market share in the U.S. by 1.2 percent in the last quarter of 2013, going up from 24.9 percent to 26.1 percent, a growth that's more or less similar to what the Korean manufacturer achieved in the third quarter. This is a good indication that while the Galaxy Note 3 received critical acclaim and sold in drovers, it hasn't helped Samsung move too close to Apple – in fact, Apple saw the same amount of growth as its biggest rival, which is a good sign of the saturation the high-end market is facing at the moment.
