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I've always taken "vaporware" to refer to abandoned software.



This makes sense if you mean abandoned before release.

> "In the computer industry, vaporware (Brit. vapourware) is a product, typically computer hardware or software, that is announced to the general public but is never actually manufactured nor officially cancelled."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware

Ha! It's even made it into Merriam-Webster's!

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vaporware

> "a computer-related product that has been widely advertised but has not and may never become available"




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