Apple saw solid iPhone sales during the most recent quarter thanks to continued demand for its new phablets, but iPad sales still struggled, according to numbers released Monday afternoon.
Apple sold 61 million iPhones during the second quarter, down from the 74.5 million it sold during the holiday quarter, but up from the 43.7 million it sold in the year-ago quarter.
Apple iPad sales landed at 12.6 million during the quarter, down from 21.5 million last quarter and 16.3 million during the same quarter a year ago.
Mac sales were at almost 4.6 million, down from about 5.5 million over the holidays, but up from 4.1 million a year ago.
Revenue landed at $58 billion, up from about $45 billion a year ago.
The most recent quarter ended on March 31, so these numbers do not include Apple Watch, which just arrived last week, or the new MacBook, which went on sale earlier this month.
They do include continued sales of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, however, which arrived in the fall, and led Cupertino to a record holiday quarter.
Apple will be holding a conference call at 5 p.m. ET, and we will update this story as more details become available.
UPDATE: Tim Cook said during an earnings call that Apple saw a "high rate of switchers than we have seen in previous cycles," meaning those who were previously using phones on rival operating systems like Android are making the switch to iPhone. He did not provide exact numbers, though. Meanwhile, Apple saw a "reasonable percentage of first-time buyers, particularly in some of the emerging markets."
In emerging markets, revenue for the March quarter was up 58 percent over last year, and "a big piece of what's driving that is iPhone," Cook said.
On Apple Watch, Cook said it is "working hard" to meet demand. It was able to ship more Apple Watches than anticipated over the weekend, and if all goes well, should be able to expand into other countries in June.
Apple is "learning quickly about customer preferences," Cook said. "In some cases, we called that well and in some cases we're making adjustments," he said, pointing to the large selection available with Apple Watch.
Cook said Apple is "thrilled" with initial response, particularly surrounding app selection. The iPhone had 500 apps at launch and the iPad had 1,000, so an "internal goal" was to have more than 1,000 Apple Watch apps at launch. Last week, that number was at 3,000 and it's now topped 3,500, Apple said today.
With iPad, Cook acknowledged that its other products, from iPhone to Mac, have cannibalized sales of its tablet.
But Apple has "never worried about that; it is what it is," Cook said. "At some point that will stabilize," though he did not know exactly when that might be.
Apple has said that its IBM deal will help with iPad sales eventually, but that partnership is "in its early stages in terms of bearing fruit," Cook said. But he is "a b