Although Apple’s iPhone has been losing market share to Samsung and other Android vendors in many parts of the world, its support remains rock-solid in the United States. The latest numbers from comScore show that Apple’s share of the American smartphone market actually increased between April 2013 and July 2013 even though it didn’t release any new devices during that time and even though both Samsung and HTC both released high-profile flagship devices. In all, comScore found that Apple accounted for 40.4% of the American smartphone market in July 2013, up from 39.2% three months earlier. Samsung unsurprisingly didn’t fare too badly, however, as it saw its share of the American smartphone market climb from 22% in April 2013 to

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