Voorbeelden van vaporware

• As a result, the title was subject to intense speculation and won several vaporware awards.

• The game has also won a wide variety of vaporware awards.

• After a number of such vaporware announcements, the third-party developers started becoming upset.

• Used fairly frequently in the computing community, particularly for marketing divisions of companies in response to frequent vaporware announcements and other unrealistic claims.

• Vaporware is also a term sometimes used to describe events that are announced or predicted, never officially cancelled, but never intended to happen.

• Vaporware also includes announced products that are never released because of financial problems, or because the industry changes during its development.

• A company known for vaporware can improve its reputation.

• Vaporware, sometimes synonymous with vaportalk in the 1980s, has no single definition.

• The company repeatedly pushed the release date forward, gaining a reputation as vaporware or hoax.

• A good example is "software", formed by analogy with "hardware"; other analogous neologisms such as "firmware" and "vaporware" have followed.

• Most software products are not released on time, according to researchers who studied the causes and effects of vaporware in 2001.

• The name is derived from the word "vaporware", which refers to announced but non-existent software.

• At times, vendors are criticized for intentionally producing vaporware in order to keep customers from switching to competitive products that offer more features.

• The practice was not called vaporware at the time, but publications have since used the word to refer specifically to it.

• Development on the game, begun in 1996, was notoriously protracted, and the game was often labeled vaporware.