Apple's mobile operating system saw a decline on their marketing share, according to NetMarketShare's April figures.
Apple's iOS platform accounted for 59.04 percent of the April market share, easily commanding a lead against all other mobile operating systems. The percentage for Apple is down however from March's 61.41 percent.
Once again, taking second place is Google's Android. In March, Android garnered 24.85 percent of the market share, but April's figures saw an increase to 26.02 percent.
Java ME maintained its third place spot for another month and even went up over one percent. The April market share for Java ME is 9.62 percent, up from the 8.16 percent of the previous month.
Microsoft's Windows Phone also saw a gain of 0.01 percent. April's market share saw Windows Phone finish sixth, behind Symbian and BlackBerry, with 1.51 percent.
Regardless, Apple and Google once again are dominating the market share as other analysis and research firms have seen it.
The numbers come as the International Data Corporation reported their worldwide quarterly market share with Android topping the market with 56.5 percent ahead of Apple's iOS' 39.6 percent. Windows Phone saw a global bounce from one percent to 3.3 percent for the first three months of 2013.
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