Apple has padded its lead as the top U.S. smartphone manufacturer in the first quarter of this year, according to comScore data released today. Samsung, the world’s top smartphone manufacturer , also had slight growth in its share of U.S. smartphone subscribers from the final quarter of last year.
All other major manufacturers lost share in a market that includes 133.7 million American smartphone owners. HTC, which today debuted HTC First, a phone that comes pre-installed with Facebook custom launcher Facebook Home, had the biggest decline, with its share of smartphone users dropping 1.7%. Apple, meanwhile, was up almost 3.9 percentage points.
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