Apple had an earnings call today, giving the low down on the company’s performance for its second quarter of 2013. Overall, there weren’t any big surprises — but that doesn’t mean it was all good news.

The Cupertino company beat analyst estimates on a number of fronts, including total revenue and iPhone and iPad sales. But profits fell for the first time in almost ten years.

Here’s the breakdown in plain English.

Apple:

made $43.6 billion in revenue and $9.5 billion in net profits. While this is a record for March revenues, this is the first time profits have fallen for Apple in almost a decade.

sold 37.4 million iPhones, compared to 35.1 million last year. Over the previous (holiday) quarter, Apple sold a whopping 47.8 million iPhones.

sold 19.5 million iPads, up from 11.8 million iPads in the same quarter in 2012 — that’s a 65 percent year-over-year increase. It sold 22.9 million iPads over the holiday quarter. Apple sold “significantly more iPad minis” in the March quarter than in the December quarter.

sold 5.633 million iPods, down from 7.673 million iPods in the same quarter last year.

sold just under 4 million Macs.

iCloud grew by 20 percent over the March quarter to 300 million total users.

is hiking its quarterly dividend by 15 percent, and is throwing a bone to battered investors by planning to buy back $50 billion of its own shares.

CEO Tim Cook acknowledged that the company’s growth rate has slowed, and since its 2012 results were incredibly strong, that is making comparisons difficult this year.

is hard at work creating “innovative products,” according to Cook. Cook said its teams are working on some “amazing new hardware, software, and services,” including “really great stuff” coming in the fall, and things it “can’t wait to announce in 2014.”

says on average, 800 iOS apps are being downloaded by people every second. Apple has paid developers $9 billion so far, and is now paying them $1 billion per quarter.

Wall Street analysts and stockholders have been bearish on Apple and its CEO Tim Cook as the company’s stock has slid from its peak of $702.10 in September 2012. Shares have dropped a stunning 42 percent since that high, even as Apple continues to set record sales and profit thanks to its iPhone and iPad lines. “The decline in Apple stock price is frustrating to all of us,” Cook acknowledged during today’s call.

Cook has mostly been quiet about investor concerns, but today Apple reached out to doubtful investors, trying to calm their fears that Apple doesn’t have that magic anymore. He’s buying their faith, and buying time until they can get the next new product lines out there.

And the latest numbers from Apple seem to be bringing some Apple investors back to the company. Shares jumped 5 percent in after-hours trading immediately following the quarterly numbers release.