Apple may be losing the smartphone operating system market share figures, but the Cupertino-based organization is No. 1 in the manufacturers charts.
According to comScore, Apple ranked as the top smartphone manufacturer in the U.S. with 40.7 percent during the three months ending in August 2013. The percentage for the Cupertino company is an increase of 1.5 percent from the 39.2 percent comScore calculated for the three months ending in May earlier this year.
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Samsung also saw an increase in their smartphone subscribers' market share by 1.3 percentage points. By the end of May 2013, Samsung garnered 23 percent but the end of August this year saw the South Korean-based organization with 24.3 percent.
Unlike Apple and Samsung, HTC and Motorola saw a decline in their percentage points.
HTC narrowly finished in third place with 7.4 percent. HTC's percentage for the three months ending in August 2013 is down 1.3 percent from the 8.7 percent it achieved by May this year.
Motorola encountered a loss of 0.9 percent between the three months ending in May 2013 to the same period by August 2013. Motorola finished August this year with 6.9 percent.
LG rounded up the top five with 6.7 percent, which is a change of 0 percentage points from May this year.
According to comScore, 145 million people in the U.S. own a smartphone, which represented 60.8 percent of the overall mobile phone market share, during the three months ending in August 2013. The number of Americans owning a smartphone during the latest three-month period is an increase of 3 percentage points from May.
As Latinos Post reported, Apple's iOS mobile operating system placed second in comScore's ranks of smartphone platforms during the same period. Google's Android platform placed first with 51.6 percent despite losing 0.8 percent from May 2013. BlackBerry, Microsoft, and Symbian rounded the top five.
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