After ending last year on a high note and crushing arch-rival Samsung in global smartphone shipments, Apple started 2026 in similarly spectacular fashion, leading the mobile industry for the first time in its history in a year's first quarter, with a 21 percent slice of the pie (at least according to Counterpoint Research).Huawei's domestic supremacy is in major jeopardyThanks to a 7 percent year-on-year surge from 13 to 13.9 million units, Huawei managed to retain its top spot in Chinese smartphone shipments in Q1 2026. That relatively small increase in volume was enough to boost the company's regional share from…