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Vaporware

Term · Computing and IT · MLC-T-CMP-001305

A hardware or software product that a developer or company announces to the public but that never gets released or officially cancelled. The announcement is sometimes a marketing tactic to gauge interest or to dissuade potential customers from buying a competitor's product that is already available. The term implies that the product was never on a firm schedule for completion and may not have been in development at all.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-CMP-001305
FieldComputing and IT
SubjectTechnical
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-CMP-001305",
  "term": "Vaporware",
  "field": "Computing and IT",
  "definition": "A hardware or software product that a developer or company announces to the public but that never gets released or officially cancelled. The announcement is sometimes a marketing tactic to gauge interest or to dissuade potential customers from buying a competitor's product that is already available. The term implies that the product was never on a firm schedule for completion and may not have been in development at all.",
  "subject": "Technical",
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/computing/vaporware/"
}

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