Source: Tom's Guide | Keywords: MobileMe, Chief, Steve, Jobs, Memo | Themes: The Internet, Networking, Business
In a move that’s likely to have MobileMe users breathing a little easier, Apple Chief, Steve Jobs has been shuffling his deck of executive cards and appointed a new leader to preside over all matters MobileMe.
In the same email seen by Ars Technica, CEO Steve told his team what they already knew. The MobileMe wasn’t up to scratch and Apple could and would do better in future.
Among admitting that perhaps it wasn’t the best idea to launch the whole thing at once (along with the iPhone 3G, iPhone 2.0 software and the App Store) and that the company could have benefited from a month by month roll-out of the features, Jobs announced that the MobileMe team as of last Monday began reporting to Eddy Cue, who leads all of Apple’s internet services.
Prior to his new role, Eddy Cue served as VP of Applications and Internet Services and was in charge of Apple’s iLife applications, including iTunes, the iTunes Store, iPhoto, iMovie and iDVD, as well as .Mac and the Apple’s online store. Eddy will add MobileMe to the mix in his new role as Vice President of Internet Services.
Not only that but while everyone is reporting to Eddy, Eddy is reporting directly to Jobs himself. The announcement comes after the helpfully regular updates on the MobileMe blog. Before last week, Apple seemed to be keeping pretty quiet about the whole users-locked-out-of-accounts mess. Not only were they not responding to requests for comment from us, but users were having little or no luck getting any information about the glitch from Apple support. However regular updates from an employee named David G. acting on instructions from Steve to update “every other day” cleared things up for users in the space of just a few days.
Let’s hope the Jobs intervention works out as well this time.
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