Steve Jobs Acknowledges MobileMe’s Flaws, Reorganizes Leadership

In an internal e-mail sent to Apple employees last night, Steve Jobs discussed MobileMe’s rough fate, and gives his input on what he believes should have happened. Jobs said that the service needed more testing, and the service could have been rolled out slowly (one feature at a time) instead of tiring the staff with getting the iPhone 3G, iPhone 2.0 software and the App Store out the door.

The email also said, according to Ars Technica, that the MobileMe team, and all Internet-related services at the company, will report to Eddy Cue. Cue will then report directly to Steve Jobs. It is not clear what happened to the the rest of the staff on the team, however.

Jobs finally said, “And learn we will. The vision of MobileMe is both exciting and ambitious, and we will press on to make it a service we are all proud of by the end of this year.”

In an internal e-mail sent to Apple employees this evening, Steve Jobs admitted that MobileMe was launched too early and “not up to Apple’s standards.” The e-mail, seen by Ars Technica, acknowledges MobileMe’s flaws and what could have been done to better handle the launch. In addition to needing more time and testing, Jobs believes that Apple should have rolled MobileMe’s services out slowly instead of launching it “as a monolithic service.” For example, over-the-air iPhone syncing could have gone up initially, then web apps one by one (Mail, Calendar, etc.).