fritterware
An excess of capability that serves no productive end. The canonical example is
font-diddling software on the Mac (see macdink); the term describes anything
that eats huge amounts of time for quite marginal gains in function but seduces
people into using it anyway. See also window shopping.
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Nearby terms:
FRINGE « frink « friode « fritterware » FRL »
FRMT-FTRN » frob
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