I came across this post a while back.

http://blogs.oracle.com/mwilcox/2009/03/davy_crockett_would_have_carri.html

While I agree with the post, I wonder if Davy Crocket would choose an iPhone or a gPhone.  I just wonder if he would choose a tool he could tweak and write his own software for.  It just seems to me that frontiersmen would have to do much more of there own than buy things pre-made from the store.  In today’s day and age, would that mean buying something a little less proprietary?

— Just a thought