The new-comScore report on U.S.-smartphone subscriber market share has one major surprise: Apple managed to increase its American market share to 42.1% in June from 41.4% in March. This is fairly astonishing considering it has been nearly a year since Apple rolled out new models-but particularly since Samsung launched its brand-new Galaxy S5 in April and HTC rolled out its much ballyhooed One (M8) in March. So two leading Android vendors debuted their well-received flagship models during the spring… and Apple’s American-market share still-inched up another notch. We know now that Samsung’s Galaxy S5 was indeed somewhat disappointing, since Samsung missed its Q2-2014 phone revenue consensus. And we know that HTC’s One (M8)-has been a bitter letdown for the company,



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