fritterware
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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