vaporware
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- noun
- /ˈveɪpərˌwɛr/
- Jargon
- The term vaporware is a blanket term and fails to assess potential technology for likelihood of success.
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If the only thing you can offer is a $500 prototype, then you're just selling vaporware at the moment.
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Windows 8, like LFTR, is vaporware.
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"We all know vaporware; perhaps this is nothing more than vaporware.
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Take a look at the article regarding the vaporware housing BP has offered over and over.
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It's better that people complain about vaporware than a lack of vision.
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Are you working for him, trying to drum up sales for his vaporware?
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You can't compare vaporware to the real thing.
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And that was vaporware and they got sued by their backers.
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Spinlister is a young company, but they aren't just a vaporware shop.
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Many tech enthusiasts are frustrated by the constant announcements of vaporware that never see the light of day.
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Not made or created, often about works such as plays and films
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Etymology
Vaporware comes from vapor ('steam' or 'not solid') + ware ('goods' or 'products'), the same ware you see in software and hardware. So a vaporware product is like 'steam'—talked about but not real—which is why the word means a promised product that is announced but never released.