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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,