5th Generation iPod Touch Teardown: Tough to Repair
Majority of core components all connected to just one ribbon cable.
Repair experts iFixit has carried out their inevitable teardown of the new iPod Touch, with the firm finding that the device is fairly tough to repair.
They gave the 5th generation iPod Touch a rating of 3 on a repairability scale of 10 (10 being the easiest). While it's not impossible to open up the device's case, the site noted that it's certainly going to take some effort to do so.
The battery is surrounded by notches which leads to a straightforward removal. Elsewhere, though, the microphone, volume buttons, LED flash, as well as the power button are all connected with just a single ribbon cable. In order to repair one of the components, it would result in users having to replace the whole ribbon cable assembly. The Lightning connector, headphone jack and microphone ribbon cable, meanwhile, are soldered to the logic board.
"This is just another example of how Apple is simplifying and grouping the components in its products," iFixit said. "Unfortunately, in doing so, it's inadvertently putting an end to repairability."
The site added that upon comparing the iPod Touch to the iPhone 5's display, it's apparently notable that the former "is a much simpler, cheaper design, despite Apple claiming the two have very similar functionality."
iFixit commended Apple for implementing a stronger home button for the iPhone 5, but they were "somewhat disappointed" with the weaker design of the iPod Touch's home button.
Apple recently started to ship the fifth generation iPod Touch to consumers, as well as making it available on store shelves.

Iphone Touch?
i read that too and was like ??? hehe
Over $6 Billion has been spend repairing broken faulty apple devices in the time since the iPhone. It was reported here some time ago.
It wouldn't be that bad to have Apple repair it if they didn't charge outrageous sums to where you would be better off purchasing a new product which is probably their intention.
A friend of mine dropped a SD card into the iMac super drive slot and the quoted price of repairs was 2000 dollars! total ripoff!
In my local shopping mall there's a ZAGG stand that does iDevice repair...cracked screens, etc. You can even change the colour of your iPhone or iPad from white or black to blue, red, green, or yellow. They'll replace an iPhone battery for $15. Yeah, we live near the capital of the free world but ZAGG must be in lots of locations too.
http://www.statisticbrain.com/apple-computer-company-statistics/
I can't say how accurate the info on that link is [nor the $6B figure on repairs], but lets go with it.
192M iPhones-- lets say an average of $600 each = $115.2B
350M iPods-- lets say an average of $150 each = $52.5B
84M iPads-- lets say an average of $550 each = $46.2B
I'm assuming that the Mac repairs are not included and Apple TV $$$ are negligible [and are cheap enough to just replace rather than repair, IMO]
Total that up and I get $213.9B in sales, with $6B in repairs only being an additional 2.8%.
I disagree. I think Apple just doesn't build its products around the idea of them needing to be repaired. Usually...usually, they don't need to be...theyr'e discarded (or whatever) usually long before they need repair. Probably the same as my SGS3... The day it needs to be "repaired" I'll probably be done with it.