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Bryan wrote an interesting post today about his conversation with a cab driver in Boston. He notes it as Web 2.0 Quotes from a cab driver, but almost all quotes rave about iPhone (and Apple ofcourse):

Web 2.0 Quotes from a Boston Cab Driver

• I got a new 3G iPhone because I am in my cab all day and it is like a laptop for my cab.
• I use Classmates.com a lot to catch up with people from school and find old friends.
• I forgot my phone today and I am going crazy without it.  Usually I am chatting on MSN with my friends all day.

Isn’t this unbelievable? The iPhone is probably going to be the computer that may be most widely used by all types of users all over the world and perhaps for more time then non-technical users ever users their laptops and desktops. If a cab driver who is busy driving all day is addicted to it, think about everyone else. This is going to have a profound effect on what becomes popular on the iPhone Web, which I would classify as web usage by iPhone users anytime, anywhere. Ultimately, if users spend more time on the iPhone Web, then companies will rush to re-purpose their offerings for ease of use on the iPhone platform. The winners, however, will be the ones who figure this out early…like now. This may explain Facebook’s new design (Facebook Readies iPhone-Inspired Redesign) and its rush to make Facebook work flawlessly and natively on the iPhone. iPhone developers and iphone development firms will definitely bubble up rapidly in this landscape and we are bound to see the iPhone emerge as the killer-connected-usable handheld that we have longed for.