The first major change is unearthed: The headphone jack no longer has the bit of tape found in its beefier-storaged cousins.

On your left: a tapeless aux port. On your right: imagery from an iPod Touch 5th Generation repair guide featuring fancy tape removal.

That makes your repair one step easier, and probably saves Apple billionths and billionths of pennies!

Then again, maybe they just forgot the tape in this unit...