Vaporware 2007: vote time
p2pnet news | P2P:- It’s that time of year again.
Vaporware time.
Pity it’s technology, or the RIAA and MPAA would win hands down.
Because it’s time to vote on the Wired winner for the, “finest examples of hype, empty promises and smoke-and-mirrors PR the technology industry has to offer”.
But it wouldn’t be fair ’cause the two entertainment cartel hit squads would win every year.
Meanwhile, so far, “As expected, Duke Nukem Forever is topping the charts yet again, and we’ve got some familiar faces from years past like the Optimus Maximus Keyboard and the aptly-named Phantom gaming console,” says Wired.
“But we’ve also seen a strong showing from some last-minute newcomers like the Tesla Roadster and Windows Mobile 6 for the BlackJack.”
Rules:
“You can only cast one vote (up or down) for each item on the list. But even if you’ve already voted, take a second look to see if there’s a new candidate filled with enough hot air to dethrone King Duke.”
- Only officially announced products with anticipated 2007 release dates are fair game.
- No rumors! The Google Phone, iTablet and hybrid Volkswagen Beetle all sound exciting. But they are only figments of the blogosphere’s collective imagination, not true vaporware.
- Leave a comment. Got something to say about the Optimus Maximus? Want to rant about the Neo1973? Sound off at the bottom of the post.
- The best comment will win a special prize!
- As in previous years, software in the pre-release, beta-testing stage is considered vaporware, even if it’s widely available. It hasn’t shipped until it’s shrink-wrapped.
- Likewise hardware. Prototypes may exist in some company’s skunk labs, or maybe a “developer only” version is making the rounds. But it’s vaporware until the rank and file get their hands on it.
- There are some items we’ve been waiting on for years. If it was supposed to be here in 2005 and the company is still promising it will arrive “any day now,” it qualifies as vaporware.
- If it shipped – even if it stank – it’s not vaporware.
- We reserve the right to remove items from the list that don’t meet the above criteria.
Nominees so far include:
Duke Nukem Forever
by Wired News
Spore
by Telanis
Chinese Democracy
Optimus Maximus
by Wired News
Iranian Nuclear Bomb
by Vince
XP service pack 3
by theanalogkid
Starcraft: Ghost
by Zack
Windows Mobile 6 for the Samsung BlackJack
by expta
Diablo III
by James
Final version of 802.11n
by Michael
Harmonix Rock Band Patch for PS3
Tesla Roadster
Longhorn
by Anonymous
Steorn’s free energy technology
Home
by Wired News
GMail
by SylvainBBB
Click here for the rest
Also See:
Wired – Vaporware 2007: Long Live the King, December 20, 2007
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December 21st, 2007 at 10:50 am
Its funny b/c one of the nominations above is out. The one about Windows Mobile 6 for Black Jack is out but only for the Samsung BlackJack II. Of course its not out for the original Black Jack. Why would they still show support for an older phone?
December 21st, 2007 at 2:33 pm
There should be some unauthorized development of a Duke Nukem Forever-oid game (open source) somewhere in the world, so that 3D Realms would shut the hell up, after such game is finished 3DR would no longer have interest (if it ever existed) in coming through with the real DN4E.
December 21st, 2007 at 7:10 pm
How about MPAA/RIAA honesty and the provision of decent products.
December 21st, 2007 at 11:23 pm
Wait a minute isn’t Service Pack 3 out?
December 24th, 2007 at 11:33 am
About XP SP3…
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?query=XP+SP3&dg=microsoft.public.windowsxp.setup_deployment&cat=en_US_537bfaf9-be75-4581-b553-7940b030cc77&lang=en&cr=US&pt=&catlist=&dglist=&ptlist=&exp=&sloc=en-us
December 24th, 2007 at 11:35 am
MORE about XP SP3:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936929