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man that sucks. now it's a useless word, synonymous with "unreleased".

remember the Phantom? classic vaporware. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_Entertainment

I've always thought that until it is actually released, and especially if there is slightly misleading information that it is there but YOU can't try it (but really nobody can but that is downplayed), than it is indistinguishable from long-term vaporware. Both Google's and Bing's announcements currently fall into this.

so like back in the day when gmail or Inbox were invite-only, you would've called those "vaporware" if you couldn't get access yourself, immediately? I just don't see the use of using this term for imminent releases.

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