Meaning & use
vaporware
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Software or hardware that is announced or advertised but never actually released, or is released long after promised.
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Tech bloggers joked that the long-delayed game had become pure vaporware.
Investors grew skeptical after the company kept promoting what looked like vaporware.
A note on using this word
Vaporware is used mainly in technology and business journalism to criticize products that seem to exist only in marketing materials.
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