The same products were sold differently within the Osborn Group and in the Earth Alliance, and different principles applied to them as well.
For example, the Osborn Group only sold Innovation Network Company stripped-down Biological Computer cores for Virtual Reality Pods. The cores were like computer CPUs, but Innovation Network Company designed, manufactured, and sold the complete Virtual Reality Pods.
Synthetics were much the same. The machines and core components used to manufacture Synthetics were produced by the Osborn Group and sold externally. Osborn almost never directly exported finished products.
The company currently responsible for manufacturing and selling Synthetics to the public was called CyberLife. Harry held a controlling stake in it, but its CEO had a very unusual identity.
She was a Synthetic who had left the Osborn Group. Her name was Amanda, and she looked like a middle-aged Black woman.
According to the records, her reason for resigning had been: she wanted to help Synthetics integrate into society. Detroit had just declared bankruptcy, making it an ideal city for promoting Synthetics.
She was now reporting the full details of the android murder case to Felicia. Harry was standing beside Felicia, though Amanda did not know that.
As mentioned earlier, CyberLife had to purchase all the core components for producing Synthetics from the Osborn Group. So far, Osborn had exported a total of fifty thousand Synthetic cores to CyberLife, which meant there could not be more than fifty thousand CyberLife Synthetics circulating on the market.
But CyberLife needed to make money too. Those fifty thousand units had sold out in no time, and merely providing follow-up services was not profitable enough. So what could they do?
Naturally, they recycled the Synthetic cores.
Amanda kept those cores within the company and sold Synthetics externally through remote data transmission. Once enough