I remember doing realtime collaboration in Groove in the early 2000s, and it was magical — this was doing what Google Docs, Figma etc. only accomplished much, much later.
Unfortunately, Groove was also obviously too much of a toy app back then. The whiteboard app was too simple, the word processor was too simple, and so on. It was an office suite but it could do almost nothing. The vision was extremely impressive, but the apps never evolved to compete with real office apps.
Another product that was way ahead of its time and failed in spite of it, or because of it.
Unfortunately, Groove was also obviously too much of a toy app back then. The whiteboard app was too simple, the word processor was too simple, and so on. It was an office suite but it could do almost nothing. The vision was extremely impressive, but the apps never evolved to compete with real office apps.
Another product that was way ahead of its time and failed in spite of it, or because of it.