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iPod Socks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Socks
201•riffic•2h ago

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rekabis•1h ago
Holy shite. I never knew. Or, at least, this rings no bells. I have several iPod classics, now I know what to look for on eBay.
Lalabadie•1h ago
I carried my iPhone (4?) in an iPod sock for a good while. It was great to protect pants pockets from cutting against the metal bezel.
swiftcoder•1h ago
Who knew Apple had a long history of knitwear releases?
pixelatedindex•1h ago
Not sure if doing it once before is “long history” but cool nonetheless
amelius•34m ago
Can't blame them. With so many Apple sheep around, they might as well make some knitware.
Alir3z4•1h ago
I never ever knew such product existed.

No wonder they made iPhone pocket now.

They should make tshirts for their laptops as well.

tetris11•1h ago
> Apple stopped selling the product sometime in September 2012.[5] The set soon became a collector's item, with aftermarket prices rising as high as US$90 by 2014.

There it is. The only reason anyone on HN will ever give a damn

nehal3m•1h ago
You honestly think the audience here only starts giving a damn at a measly $90? This is going in the weird comment hall of fame for me.
tetris11•1h ago
(collect for rare item resale for $$$ later. Same with the pocket. Same with the sock.)
shmeeed•1h ago
I love that these posts are right below each other at the moment.
dang•25m ago
Adjacencies like that are amusing but we end up sacrificing them to the higher priority of having 30 distinct stories on the frontpage. Sorry!
stevekemp•1h ago
Back in the day I knitted something similar for myself, though I don't recall if I'd seen the original product.

In fact earlier this year I bought a new kindle and knitted a little "sock" for it:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DGTsi5SM9YM/

Just knit a rectangle, and sew two edges together to make a flat "sock" or "envelope". I was done in a couple of hours, but I guess I'm used to knitting in front of the TV.

rambambram•1h ago
Cute thing! And I guess it's pretty good in protecting the device?
Isamu•1h ago
I bought these for the kids, back in the iPod days. Fun and helpful to keep the things from getting too banged up. But actually the iPod era went by quickly.

The iPod was a stepping stone to the iPhone but even Steve didn’t know that at the beginning.

jasongill•1h ago
I didn't realize these were a collectors item, I had bought a couple packs as they worked great to keep the iPod from clattering around in the glove compartment or center console of the car. I gave some to friends who used them as phone cases in the early iPhone days.
delBarrio•1h ago
used one with my magic mouse 1, never would have paid upwards of $40 for it. was quite handy tho, to avoid scratching the delicate white plastic, despite it barely fit. Issey Myake knit lanyard pocket -- what a joke! Buckle up folks, we're definitely in a bubble.
rambambram•1h ago
Back when smartphones were not a thing yet, I had some new Nokia model that I kept in a little fabric 'bag' that I got with my Minidisc-player. I remember being laughed at by some friends. Years later everybody uses some kind of case for their smartphone, and I go by some personal policy to keep the bare smartphone in my pocket. I don't know why I tell this, maybe because I sometimes feel like a trendsetter.
skinnymuch•1h ago
I have been planning on paying for AppleCare and not using a case for my main phone or an incredibly thin discrete/minimal case. Modern phones look so sleek without cases.
iamacyborg•1h ago
They look sleek but feel like slippery garbage ergonomically.
sogen•11m ago
Yes!

Mine slipped not once, but twice in a cab... In the span of a week...

As much as I loved how it looks and works without a case, they are a slippery nightmare

TremendousJudge•1h ago
I also used to have a bare phone policy, but I had to change it after everybody decided to start making the damn things out of fragile glass. Yeah plastic screens are uglier but they don't crack
hagbard_c•45m ago
Whoa there pardner, my first 'smartphone' victim was a Nokia NGage - hey, it ran Symbian and I got it for not that much - which I had in my front coat pocket while working in the forest. One relatively gentle collision with a branch sticking out from a tree and the plastic screen was cracked. As was the LCD underneath it. It was then I switched to the next big thing, a Qtek S200 (better known as HTC Prophet). It was cheap 'cause it was used in some experiment by the Swedish railways which seems to have failed. The thing was new, more or less, for 1/10th of the price. It had a plastic touch screen cover which I replaced twice 'cause it started to resemble frosted glass from use.
HeinzStuckeIt•31m ago
My memory of Nokia is phones so strong, you didn’t a case, just maybe a screen protector. I dropped my N900 from a meter height many, many times and it never cracked. It’s still such a handsome piece of hardware in my drawer that I wish I could still take it out and use it.
golden-face•1h ago
Stuff like this was kind of necessary on those early generation iPods, they had mechanical spinning disks. I remember dropping mine and hearing the click from the busted disk :/
throwaway314155•1h ago
Weren't they supposed to stop per the accelerometer inside?
dabluecaboose•1h ago
After recently fixing up and using my old iPod, I was happy to find the website that I used to buy my parts also sells generic iPod socks!

I've got one on it in my phone locker right now.

https://eoe.works/collections/cases-attachments/products/new...

sph•1h ago
The world wasn't ready for this. Apple is living two decades ahead.
reconnecting•59m ago
I'm wondering if there are Socks/Pocket for Apple Vision Pro planned for release in 2035.
koziserek•56m ago
would need to be underpants
notatoad•53m ago
you could probably put a gogglesock on the vision pro

https://gogglesoc.com/collections/gogglesocs

dinobones•59m ago
$30 for a sock even in 2025 seems pretty steep. In 2004 is crazy. I guess I'm forgetting how "overpriced" Apple was at the time.
layer8•56m ago
It was $29 for a pack of six socks.
emchammer•37m ago
The price is right for a dildo cozy. Maybe a little more if hand knit.
intrasight•31m ago
I have found that my knitted socks were one of the pair was lost get a second life to protect my tech.
thesurlydev•58m ago
vom
sphars•50m ago
Context for this submission:

Apple releases the iPhone Pocket: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/11/introducing-iphone-po...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45885813

dang•24m ago
Thanks! I've put a link to OP in the toptext of the other thread.
Manfred•48m ago
I also had an iPad sock, that eventually fitted an MacBook Air.
robertlagrant•46m ago
I need some AirPod mittens to keep my collection in.
levysoft•15m ago
I still use them to plug in my wired earphones.

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