[mrlambchop]

I don't think this is true these days and especially not true of this phone release.

IIRC, Apple will have made somewhere close to 20k phones before getting anywhere close to mass production and as the ID didn't change that much, the risk is pretty low on there being a long term material issue.

If the ID changes next year (just going off manufacturing rumors), I might wait a little, but this year seems like no risk.