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Apple’s massive fourth quarter was enough to propel the company to the top of the worldwide market share charts, according to numbers released today by Gartner. The Cupertino-based company sold 74.8 million iPhones around the world during the quarter, making up 20.4 percent of the market, the most of any smartphone manufacturer.

Samsung came in a close second, selling slightly more than 73 million units. Those numbers are a massive difference from the same period in 2013, when Samsung sold more than 83 million units to Apple’s 50.2 million units. The company’s share of the worldwide market for the quarter plummeted by almost 10 percentage points from 29.5 percent in the fourth quarter of 2014 to 19.9 percent during the same period in 2014.

Xiaomi, the rising star of China’s smartphone industry, saw the biggest gains during the quarter, selling almost 18.6 million units during Q4 2014, compared to almost 5.6 million units during the year-ago quarter. For now, the company’s phones aren’t available in the U.S., but it’s gearing up for a broader expansion. Xiaomi offered review units of the Mi Note, its latest flagship, to a number of U.S. media outlets, and its reviews have been largely positive.

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Quarterly results aside, Samsung’s sales for the full year still topped Apple’s – the Korean company sold almost 308 million units, while iPhone sales reached almost 191.5 million units. Samsung’s overall chunk of worldwide market share eroded significantly, though. Sales of its handsets made up 24.7 percent of the market in 2014, compared to 30.9 percent in 2013.

There’s good news for smartphone makers overall in these numbers – sales for the year almost topped 1.25 billion units, up from almost 970 million units during the same period a year ago, showing that there’s still room for growth in the smartphone business.

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