"[This app] is free, but it's still a _placebo_."

[Wilson Gray]

_Placebo_ extended semantically, so that the writer understands it as
"something unnecessary , not needed, or useless"?

The sentence occurs in the context of a discussion having to do with
the intrinsic worth of an app specially written for the sole purpose
of quitting the Mac OS X Finder.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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