marchitecture

A portmanteau of "marketing" and "architecture". The result when the marketing department of a tech company has an excessive hand in the design of a product, often to the detriment of performance, though usually for the explicit purpose of driving the sale price up. Popularized by The Inquirer.

1. Does "centrino" actually do anything or is it just a piece of marchitecture?

2. Apple's OSX is totally being loaded down with marchitecture.

by Isaac February 19, 2005

Marketecture

(1) A theoretical product architecture, conjured up by the marketing department, that has no similiarity to any product(s) on the drawing board, nor in production.

(2) A company's reference a set of products obtained through acquisition, where no interoperation exists, but might be cobbled together to seem to implement the original intent.

We're being told the new marketecture will include all of our competitor's features.

by John B. Young May 22, 2007

Marketexture

A marketing campaign that descibes a product's usage (or even a product) that is a complete fabrication. While the product may have use as descrbied within the marketing material, it is not based on any real event or proof that it can be acheived.

that powerpoint about the product in use was complete marketexture. Toothpaste adds claiming usage will help get you laid are based on marketexture.

by CaliforniaMatt September 29, 2008

barkitect

An architect who designs luxury doghouses.

My barkitect designed a doghouse for my French Bulldog, which included tile flooring, hand-painted wallcoverings and a replica of a fireplace with a painting of my dog over the mantel.

by earlysnowdrop June 30, 2012

parkitect

a person who engages in the profession of architecture, but wastes the majority of his working life on drawing and counting parking spaces.

Small talk at a party:
Gorgeous blonde: "what do you do?"
John: "I am a parkitect..."
Gorgeous blonde "Cool! Sketching, making scale models, philosophy meets physics...?"
John: "ehm, yeah, and what do you do?"

by Edmanski March 25, 2008

markiest

stupid but funny he loves to wear shaggy pants and loves xxxtentacion his teachers fucking hate him espacially ms scott
he waste food. he kno da wae and he also tall

markiest :cheezeticks

by offwhitemasteroof February 28, 2018

Marchitecture

The non-existent system architecture used to sell a high-tech product. Vaporware on a grand scale.

That router is part of Cisco's Marchitecture for mobility.

by Bob Bohica March 15, 2004