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That's a poor example, as users genuinely don't care about download file size or installed size, within reason. Nobody in the West is sweating a 200MB download.
Users will generally balk at 2000MB though. ie, there's a cutoff point somewhere between 200MB and 2000MB, and every engineering decision that adds to the package size gets you closer to it.
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This comments makes no sense.

The reason why people aren't sweating 200mb is because everything has gotten to be that big. Change that number to 2 terabytes.

Adn guess what? In 5 years time, someone will say "Nobody in the West is seating a 2 TB download" because it keeps increasing.

Yes, that's because you're all measuring the wrong factor for user satisfaction.

Users don't care about download size, they care about:

* will it fit on my storage device

* can I download it in a convenient amount of time

* does it run with acceptable performance

It really doesn't matter if it's a kilobyte or a petabyte.

Someone in the 80s, probably:

This comments makes no sense.

The reason why people aren't sweating 1mb is because everything has gotten to be that big. Change that number to 20mb.

And guess what? In 5 years time, someone will say "Nobody in the West is seating a 200mb download" because it keeps increasing.

The point obviously went over your head