It seems Apple made a fortune out of this holiday season. As per the reports Apple has sold 48 million iPhones in Q4, 2012 and out which 17.7% million sales happened in the US. Apple beat Samsung by taking up 34.4% market share as compared to 32.3%market share of Samsung. This clearly shows that people in US are more inclined to Apple iPhone 5than Samsung Galaxy S3 or Samsung Galaxy Note 2. While Apple and Samsung is being loved by consumers, LG and other brands is lost a lot of sales in Q4. But if we look at the last year total sales then undoubtedly Samsung triumphed over Apple by selling 53 million smartphones the United States as compared to 43.7 million iPhones that were sold by Apple.