How to Use vaporware in a Sentence

vaporware

noun
  • But what happens if the vendors of vaporware try to run a dream factory?
    — Madeline Ashby, WIRED, 17 July 2023
  • Regardless, none of these products should end up as vaporware.
    — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 8 Jan. 2022
  • Health tech gadgets tend to end up as vaporware, and this isn’t even the first time a smart menstrual cup has been pitched.
    — Victoria Song, The Verge, 3 Feb. 2023
  • In this cycle, the tech industry’s woes aren’t the result of dot-com vaporware.
    — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Wall Street dismissed it as yet another piece of Musk vaporware.
    — Andrea Chang, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Announcing a phone like this a year in advance is a strange move, and doing so gives the whole endeavor a whiff of vaporware.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 2 Oct. 2019
  • Put another way, most (if not all) of the presentation was based on vaporware rather than hardware.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 4 Oct. 2023
  • At this stage, Bessent’s suggestion that private investors will step in to meet the funding gap is mere vaporware.
    — John Cassidy, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • After all, Google chose to showcase the Pixel Tablet, which is vaporware at best right now.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 26 May 2022
  • So this another example of overblown Russian military vaporware or is there something more to it?
    — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 18 Jan. 2019
  • The 500-year ceramic geodesic dome home is vaporware no more.
    — John Koetsier, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Mark Spiegel call him a fraud as a result, and criticize prototypes as little more than pretty vaporware that will never make it to market.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2022
  • And, certainly, there have been a raft of space hotel proposals since the early 2010s that have amounted to vaporware.
    — Jd Shadel, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The vaunted mission modules often turned out to be vaporware, and even after more than ten years of development, few if any actually deployed to the fleet.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 July 2017
  • This year's event featured future vaporware like a giant combat walker robot and other concepts far off into the future, such as chameleon camouflage.
    — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 29 Aug. 2018
  • Often, demoware becomes vaporware, announced for shock and awe in order to discourage competitors, but never released at all.
    — Gary Marcus, Scientific American, 6 June 2022
  • If Musk fails to deliver or shows off some obvious vaporware, his reputation — and Tesla’s stock price — could take a real hit.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 9 Oct. 2024
  • But amazingly the hat does not appear to be vaporware, as one YouTube user has posted an unboxing video complete with audio playback.
    — John Patrick Pullen, Fortune, 21 July 2017
  • This is simultaneously a recipe for vaporware and for autocracy.
    — Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 15 Nov. 2018
  • Now, Russia’s state media often makes sweeping claims about the state of the country’s defense industry, and many developments often go the way of vaporware.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 27 May 2021
  • This story, of new Russian fighting vehicles introduced with great fanfare and turning into vaporware, has been repeated over and over again in recent years.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Most, if not all of the missiles are still under development or, like the mystery ICBM, are what might be considered vaporware.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 17 Apr. 2017
  • Truthfully, the ride-along didn’t inspire much confidence that Faraday or its FF91 will be more than vaporware, at least in the near future.
    — Abigail Bassett, Ars Technica, 12 Sep. 2022
  • But those rumors never seemed to go anywhere, earning a kind of vaporware status similar to the infamous Duke Nukem Forever.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 2 June 2023
  • Russia’s most modern tank, the vaporware T-14 Armata main battle tank, uses a new system known as Afghanit.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 June 2021
  • The venture-capital and tech worlds, awash in easy money, developed a culture of selling narratives and vaporware—lofty and sometimes fantastical ideas, with no clear path to implementation.
    — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Not necessarily, but knowing that its performance matters to more than Netflix’s shareholders does restore an ounce of material weight to a project that might otherwise have felt like vaporware.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 15 Jan. 2026
  • In positioning itself as the great Tesla disrupter, Lucid Motors made performance claims for its debut-model Air that seemed destined for the vaporware ether.
    — Nicolas Stecher, Robb Report, 19 Feb. 2022
  • In the auto industry, Musk’s production assertions are viewed as the manufacturing equivalent of vaporware—an advance that is promised but has very little chance of becoming a reality.
    — Jeffrey Rothfeder, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2017
  • With its dramatic, swoopy curves, aggressive front splitter and imposing rear wing, the 21C could, at first glance, be dismissed as yet another piece of vaporware from a boutique car maker selling a pipe dream to eager collectors.
    — Laura Burstein, Robb Report, 11 Jan. 2022

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