ComScore: Android's US share dips ever so slightly, iPhone slowly marching up

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Here's a minor surprise: Android slipping at all in US [market share][3]. Although it saw just a tiny drop of two tenths of a point from [where it was in March][4], and still saw a gain over January, Google's platform was down to 50.8 percent in April. Nothing dramatic enough to make Mountain View worry, as such, but definitely a sharp break from the [rapid growth of last year][5]. Apple could meanwhile claim a small victory for the month as a result by continuing to grow -- even if we wouldn't call its 31.4 percent iPhone share a revolution. Of the other platforms, only Microsoft had anything to crow about, as the [Lumia 900][6] launch brought Windows Phone back just over the four percent mark.

The positions among individual cellphone makers as a whole didn't budge in April, and whatever losses came to Android's partners in that area were spread evenly across top-dog Samsung as well as LG and Motorola. Perhaps the biggest twist was HTC holding its ground at a steady six percent, which hints that the [HTC One S'][7] arrival at T-Mobile might have been just the ticket to keeping Taiwan in the fight.

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