Or they have been negotiating with Apple for 5 years to take out a license. Most of those negotiations are in secret since most end with an NDA.

How about we let the Africans decide! What a CONCEPT! Self determination!

My credit card.

I'm going to steal someone's phone to get their credit card number? Why not take their wallet?

...an obsolete one, at that...

It's Moe-lib-den-ite.

Some kind of Vietnamese lab?

Perhaps it is too small, but what I do not see in the animation is a new deflection in the orbit with this close fly-by to the earth and moon. What will the new orbit be after the flyby?

Different polymer. The Li-ion Polymers used today are the "solid" batteries the article refers to (as opposed to Liquid Li-ion). A quick Google search would have answered that for you.

So what is the technical reason for putting the logic into the cable? None? Purely financial? Ok, I will wait for IBM's new 50GB/s interconnect.

If you can buy a BMW 7 series, you can buy a Tesla. Target market.