Comscore has released its November 2012 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share Report showing that Samsung, Apple, Android, and iOS continue to dominate the market. Its study surveyed over 30,000 U.S. mobile smartphone subscribers over a three month period and found Samsung to be the top smartphone manufacturer with a 26.9 percent market. Android was the most used operating system with a 53.7 market share. Apple came in second in both areas with 18.5 percent smartphone share and 35 percent platform share.

Samsung and Apple were the only smartphone manufacturers to see their market share rise. The same trend followed with Android and iOS being the only smartphone platforms to rise in market share.

Comscore's report also broke down the top smartphone platforms and revealed that Google's Android and Apple's iOS dominated. Google's Android took the top spot with 53.7 percent, up 1.1 percent from the previous period. Apple's iOS came in second and took 35 percent, a rise of 0.7 percent. RIM followed in third with 7.3 percent, a steep decline of 1 percent. Microsoft finished in fourth with 3 percent, down 0.6 percent and Symbian remained in fifth place with 0.5 percent, a 0.2 percent drop.

The big winners were Samsung, Apple, and Google, while LG, RIM, Motorola, Microsoft, and HTC continued to struggle and decline in the market share they so desperately need to rise.