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. [Jargon File]Nearby terms:
FRINGE ♦ frink ♦ friode ♦ fritterware ♦ FRL ♦ FRMT-FTRN ♦ frob ♦ frobnicate
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