As private businesses grow, they come into contact with state-sector suppliers, distributors and customers, and often find that their theoretical property rights countforlittle when it comes to collecting debts or having contracts honoured.
But legal quibbles countforlittle when set against the political fact that Britain's central government has given away powers that it will never dare to take back now that devolution has been consecrated by referendums.
If you have sat across the table for months on end with Cyril Ramaphosa and found a way by which sworn enemies can come together to craft a new nation (and become firm friends), then the frustrations that drive the rest of us to distraction seem to countforlittle.
The closest they have managed is the Titan and Titan 2 handsets, which traded on little more than going for a very big screen (4.7 inches) and a monster count of pixels (with a 16 megapixel camera on the Titan 2).