{"id":650677,"date":"2013-04-04T17:18:48","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T21:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=627683"},"modified":"2013-04-04T17:18:48","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T21:18:48","slug":"apple-builds-on-its-lead-as-top-u-s-smartphone-maker-htc-takes-biggest-dip-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/650677","title":{"rendered":"Apple builds on its lead as top U.S. smartphone maker; HTC takes biggest dip [chart]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has padded its lead as the top U.S. smartphone manufacturer in the first quarter of this year, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comscore.com\/Insights\/Press_Releases\/2013\/4\/comScore_Reports_February_2013_U.S._Smartphone_Subscriber_Market_Share\">comScore data released today<\/a>. Samsung, the <a href=\"http:\/\/pro.gigaom.com\/blog\/why-samsung-and-visa-could-give-mobile-payments-a-lift\/?utm_source=tech&#38;utm_medium=editorial&#038;%2338;utm_campaign=intext&#038;%2338;utm_term=627683+apple-builds-on-its-lead-as-top-u-s-smartphone-maker-chart&#038;%2338;utm_content=ranimolla\">world\u2019s top smartphone manufacturer\u00a0<\/a>, also had slight growth in its share\u00a0of U.S. smartphone subscribers from the final quarter of last year.<\/p>\n<p>All other major manufacturers lost share in a market that includes 133.7 million American smartphone owners. HTC, which today debuted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.att.com\/gen\/press-room?pid=24015&#38;cdvn=news&#038;%2338;newsarticleid=36260&#038;%2338;mapcode=consumer%7Cwireless\">HTC First<\/a>, a phone that comes pre-installed with Facebook <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2013\/04\/04\/live-blog-facebooks-new-home-on-android\/\">custom launcher Facebook Home<\/a>, had the biggest decline, with its share of smartphone users dropping 1.7%. 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Samsung, the world\u2019s top smartphone manufacturer\u00a0, also had slight growth in its share\u00a0of U.S. smartphone subscribers from the final quarter of last year. All other major manufacturers lost share in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7541,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7541"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}