“Throughout December, iOS’s Safari carved out a 52 percent share of the mobile market, down from 54 percent in November and 61 percent in October, but still [comfortably] in the lead,” Lance Whitney reports for CNET. “Google’s Android browser ended December with a 16 percent share, a dip from the prior two months.”

“Drilling down further, the iPhone accounted for 25 percent of all mobile browsing and the iPad 24 percent, leaving the iPod Touch with 2 percent,” Whitney reports. “Nestled in second place between iOS and Android was Java ME (Micro Edition), a mobile platform found predominantly on feature phones.”

Whitney reports, “Smartphones have continued to surge in popularity this past year. But less-pricey feature phones still hold a fair chunk of the mobile marketplace as evidenced by Java ME’s 21 percent share in December.”

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