It's honestly a game of innovate or catch up. It's not like Apple is unique in this...
Exactly! And yet they make that face like this is the first time anyone has thought about it. I know it's for the marketing and RDF, but still. Collaborative editing was solved by Google Wave.
Is realtime collaboration offered in any competing desktop apps? On the Mac at least there is none in Office.
> Is realtime collaboration offered in any competing desktop apps?
Office 2016 does have realtime collaboration in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, in both the desktop and online apps.
Desktop office is not real time - it's synced and since office web sucks compared to gDocs - gDocs win new markets.
MS's OneNote has real-time collab capability.
Office 2016 has real-time collaboration on the Mac, and has for quite some time.