But people who write about the business and culture of the software industry, with its newly minted riches and its deepening social impact, owe it to their readers to disentangle themselves from such adolescent fantasies -- or at least put them under the microscope.
But Verizon could decide that it does not actually need the iPhone, thanks to its deepening ties with Google.
World markets tumbled and the euro slid to an eight-year low against the pound after Greece confirmed it had shut its banks for six days amid its deepening financial crisis.
The Trump administration is moving forward this week with plans to impose tariffs on a wider array of Chinese imports even as it explores the possibility of a negotiated resolution of its deepening trade conflict with China.
Underlining its deepening financial difficulties, another region, Andalusia, said Tuesday that it was preparing to request $6.3 billion from the fund.
In a sense, therefore it represents both the frailty of the neoliberal project and its deepening".
They have also favoured widening the group, rather than its deepening into a single market.
