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Levenger Analogy - Your thoughts?
Scott Elias | Feb 2 2007
I'm a bit envious. My mom who lives in South Florida is going the Levenger store today. I turned her on to the Circa system and showed her Doug's reviews at DIYPlanner so she's going to check things out. When she asked me what was so special about Levenger's stuff, the best I could come up with was this: Levenger is to low-tech as Apple is to high-tech. Sure, I'm an unapologetic Apple fanboy, but it does make sense. It may cost a little bit more, but you're getting superior quality and attention to detail. So what do you think? The above is my opinion only - please let's not have any Mac bashing... 8 Comments
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When she asked me what...Submitted by mdl on April 10, 2007 - 1:11pm.
ScottE22;7959 wrote:
Reviving an old post here: The only problem with the Levenger - Apple analogy is that Levenger's leather products remind me too much of board rooms and executive offices. And where does one find leather, monograms, fountain pens? In the executive offices of the Windows dominated corporate world. Or among an upper-class that hires others to use computers for them. I would have to say that the clean, hip simplicity of index cards and legal pads reminds me more of Apple than the cigar-room ambience of Levenger's embossed leather. But each to his/her own. » POSTED IN:
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