Apple had the world's two best-selling smartwatches in H1, Garmin topped Huawei and Samsung

The , but unlike the typical quarterly research papers , this one focuses primarily on the industry's revenue numbers generated during the year's first six months.

Unsurprisingly, Apple towers above its increasingly aggressive rivals in this key metric too, accounting for more than half of the market's global revenues between January and June 2020, up from "only" 43.2 percent in the same period of last year.

The Cupertino-based tech giant also impressively managed to boost its shipment volumes by 22 percent year-on-year even as the industry on the whole ...