vaporware
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of vaporware
Example Sentences
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Without any details, his promise looks like what Silicon Valley calls “vaporware” — an announcement without a product.
From Los Angeles Times
But he has a history of touting innovations that proved to be vaporware.
From Los Angeles Times
But it’s also too easy to spot the vaporware.
From The Verge
Automatic translation is limited to English and Chinese, and it’s not as seamless as, say, those vaporware glasses Google asked us to imagine in May.
From The Verge
Today, the character is mostly known as a punchline for video game vaporware jokes, about how Duke Nukem Forever spent 14 years in development hell only to become a huge flop.
From The Verge
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