Definitions
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- noun informal
feature creep
Etymologies
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Examples
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They are edited products that cut through complexity, by consciously leaving things out - not cramming every feature that came into an engineer's head, an affliction known as "featuritis" that burdens so many technology products.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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They are edited products that cut through complexity, by consciously leaving things out - not cramming every feature that came into an engineer's head, an affliction known as "featuritis" that burdens so many technology products.
MyAppleMenu 2010
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They are edited products that cut through complexity, by consciously leaving things out - not cramming every feature that came into an engineer's head, an affliction known as "featuritis" that burdens so many technology products.
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I like Netvibes, but they're suffering from featuritis in a major way.
Netvibes Adds Multiple, Publish-Ready Pages | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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I like Netvibes, but they're suffering from featuritis in a major way.
Netvibes Adds Multiple, Publish-Ready Pages | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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You've seen what featuritis did to Microsoft Office, since all surveys point out that 95% of its users only use at most 5% of the features.
Cut and Run Steve Perry 2007
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Japanese toilet technology has developed creeping featuritis.
Boing Boing: October 6, 2002 - October 12, 2002 Archives 2002
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This features arms race, nicknamed featuritis, made both browsers slower and more vulnerable.
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The featuritis and busy-ness of other travel web sites is refreshingly absent from Frontier's web site.
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Designs succumbing to creeping featuritis are banana problems.
Daring Fireball 2009
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