Recently, in the wake of Apple's MobileMe "mea culpa" in which the company reported that it had lost a portion of user e-mail (which was eventually restored) among other issues, Apple CEO Steve Jobs purportedly authored an e-mail memo sent to all Apple employees about the MobileMe launch.

According to Italian web site setteB.it and the Apple Core, the memo reads as follows:

Team,

The launch of MobileMe was not our finest hour. There are several things we could have done better:

– MobileMe was simply not up to Apple’s standards – it clearly needed more time and testing.

– Rather than launch MobileMe as a monolithic service, we could have launched over-the-air syncing with iPhone to begin with, followed by the web applications one by one – Mail first, followed 30 days later (if things went well with Mail) by Calendar, then 30 days later by Contacts.

– It was a mistake to launch MobileMe at the same time as iPhone 3G, iPhone 2.0 software and the App Store. We all had more than enough to do, and MobileMe could have been delayed without consequence.

The memo then moves on to reassign certain staff members and the full text can be seen here.

Stay tuned for more news as it becomes available and if you have your own feedback on MobileMe, let us know in the comments or forums.