Apple Discontinues iPod Socks

The colorful cloth pouches sold as protective accessories for the iPod line are no longer available through Apple, keen observers are reporting.

Apple fans aren’t sure exactly when Apple retracted the goods, but it’s a good time to inform the world that they’re no longer available for purchase via Apple’s online store.

Ideally, we’d have reported this ahead of their removal from the virtual shelves of store.apple.com, but the Cupertino computer company didn’t give anyone a heads-up.

The socks will surely be missed by some, but apparently there wasn’t enough demand to keep this business pillar standing. The move is obviously tied to the emergence of newer generations of iPod players with different designs, which gave birth to incompatibility issues.

Third-party sellers like Amazon.com also list the accessory as “currently unavailable” with the message, “We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock.”

Safe to say they’ll no longer be restocking this particular item any time soon.

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