Steve Jobs: Mistake launching MobileMe and iPhone 3G together

Following on from Peter’s article this morning I thought I would say a little more. MobileMe from Apple has had it fair share of problems since launching and of course it is bad enough to read many readers criticisms about MobileMe but from Steve Jobs it is surely mind-blowing.

We like his honesty, Ars Technica had an internal Apple email that Steve Jobs sent out to their employees showing details of his displeasure that MobileMe was “not up to Apple’s Standards.” It indeed needs both more time in testing, and a piece-by-piece launch, rather than attempting to launch it as a “monolithic service,”

So ok Steve Jobs has said

“it was a mistake to launch MobileMe at the same time as iPhone 3G, iPhone 2.0 software and the App Store,” which is an admission that perhaps Apple had bitten off more than they could chew. “We all had more than enough to do, and MobileMe could have been delayed without consequence.”

That is a very good point when you think about it, they launched the Apple iPhone 3G, MobileMe then the iPhone update, and then came the App Store plus the recent 2.0.1 firmware update, we believe Apple are doing far too much to quickly and they should concentrate in giving us anything they have working properly, but it seems they want to push out as much as they can even if it works or not.

Do you think Apple is doing too much too soon?