Apple announced earlier this year that it has officially reached the 1 billion active devices milestone, setting it apart from many of its competitors. However, according to recent reports, the iPhone only occupied about 15.3% of 2016's first quarter new smartphone market share compared to Samsung's 24.5%. In fact, the iPhone has been behind Samsung for quite a while now when it comes to selling smartphones worldwide.

But this still doesn't reflect iPhone owners' web usage year after year in the United States. According to our own research below, we found that roughly 47% of all mobile web users in the United States are iPhone users.