Fritterware

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From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  fritterware n. 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}.
  


  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  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}]