Apple and Samsung have gained market share in the U.S. smartphone hardware market. Over the past three months Apple saw a rise of 0.3% market share to 39.2%, while Samsung continued its farfetched consolidation of the Android smartphone market with at 1.7% increase to 23%. Together the two companies are shipping over 62% of smartphones in the U.S. HTC and Motorola, the two Android handset manufacturers with the highest market share behind Samsung, fell 0.6% each, to 8.7% and 7.8% respectively.
Android still leads with a majority market share of 52.4%, a 0.7% increase from February.