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by iainmerrick 3496 days ago
Even if that's true, they still care about losing users -- users are inventory!
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This is just "shrinkage." It's factored in.

A certain percentage of your inventory will be stolen off the shelves per year. Your rental property will stand empty a certain percentage of the year. A certain number of your cows and chickens will die, or fall ill and be "culled." A certain number of your engineers will move on. A certain number of your containers will fall overboard and spread yellow rubber duckies around the word's oceans.

Yes, but if your inventory is over a billion units worldwide, you don't even notice a few thousand a year disappearing from the shelves.