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}.
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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {macdink}{-ware}{window shopping}]