It's Too Early for an iPad Backlash  Critics anxious to put down
the latest device from Apple are missing the point.  Spencer
Platt/Getty Images  In a widely retweeted comment, Wesley Chan,
an investment partner on Google Ventures, wrote on Saturday that
he was "very underwhelmed by the iPad [he] bought today. That
said, 300 other people also waited to buy an oversized iPhone
that can't make calls."  Similarly, Jeff Jarvis, new-media
supercritic and author of What Would Google Do? wrote on Sunday,
"After having slept with her (Ms. iPad), I am having morning-
after regrets. Sweet and cute but shallow and vapid.  Later on
Sunday morning, this led to an article on the Silicon Alley
Insider, "The iPad Backlash Begins," that compiled about a dozen
critical tweets.  But the iPad backlashers are jumping the gun.
Any computer is only as good as its software. Without what the
tech world calls a "killer app" or an extremely compelling
application for the device, it's hard to know what it's good
for. Though the iPad run