Ars Technica's Infinite Loop says it has seen "an internal e-mail sent to Apple employees this evening" where Steve Jobs admitted that MobileMe was launched too early and "not up to Apple's standards." The story says:
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.).
Jobs goes on. "It was a mistake to launch MobileMe at the same time as iPhone 3G, iPhone 2.0 software and the App Store," he says. "We all had more than enough to do, and MobileMe could have been delayed without consequence." We agree with that one.
MobileMe was apparently so awful it got a negative review from The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg: Apple's MobileMe Is Far Too Flawed To Be Reliable. Meanwhile, Apple -- unusually, and possibly for the first time -- has been keeping MobileMe customers informed, at Steve Job's request, says the site.
Update: Infinite Loop has now published the full text. It doesn't add much.
