My experience with MobileMe has been far from perfect. In fact, I talked about just two weeks ago. But there’s a difference between then and now. Then, MobileMe was ironing out launch kinks, which can be expected. Now, it’s exhibiting serious character flaws.

“Apple’s secrecy keeps them from properly testing out their apps with tons of users, the way other companies do who aren’t so worried about secrecy,” says Robert Scoble. And while this may very well be true, I can’t help but think the problem is even deeper than that. Apple lover that I am, I think they’re in over their heads this time.

I haven’t had any calendar troubles. Everything syncs just fine now. But when I tried to add a domain name to my “Personal Domains,” MobileMe said it was invalid. Now, I did some digging and it seems even though MobileMe is supposed to recognize sites with hyphens in them, it’s not. I also found out that Apple Support can help fix this for you. And that would be all fine and well if Apple Support, you know, worked.

When you go on the MobileMe Support site, you’re prompted to browse through articles they have on various problems. If the articles don’t help, you can select the topic that fits the closest and then fill out an email form. However, this e-mail form is nowhere in sight. And the live chat is “unavailable.” But these issues are only on the U.S. version of the Apple site. Go in the U.K. site and the Email form is as plain as day. However, online reports seem to indicate that people are just getting a standardized email exactly 48 hours after their inquiry.

So what’s the deal here? Is Apple turning its back on its customers? Is it merely overwhelmed with inquiries? Are they doing their best to fix the problems right now?

I don’t know the answers to these questions, and while I doubt they’re ignoring their customers, it would be the courteous thing to do to at least indicate they’re working it. Including links to help chats and indicating there’s an email support form when there isn’t one, is just plain deceptive.