NETBOOK PHENOMENON IN BANDUNG INDONESIA

Almost always the conventional wisdom had it that people will pay a premium for the most powerful notebooks, as long as they're Japanese brands.But eventually this trend change. People in Indonesia still buying laptop but they seem to have ended their love affair with pricey, high-end products. Instead, they're opting for netbook PCs—inexpensive machines with pared-down features that rely on the Internet for many tasks.

The biggest beneficiaries for this turn over change are Taiwanese PC makers Acer and Asus. By the fourth quarter of 2009 they had 62 percent of the Japanese netbook. The change evident in Bandung Electronic Centre business district, where shoppers and seller crowd booths selling netbook PCs. In computer-product sections, it's now very difficult to tell one brand from the other Taiwanese, Chinese, Japanese, and U.S. brands are now displayed side by side. The Taiwanese netbook builder are not just beating the Japanese manufacturers on price, they're also matching them on design, this makes their products more and more valued by the buyer in Indonesia ( Bandung in particular).
The mobile-phone handsets market make same progress, may the lesson and I think the best news in from the netbook phenomenon is that Indonesian people can have computers with low price. But the disturbing thing that the variety of stuff that in market makes ordinary people more and more difficult to pick there choice.