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More blood on Apple iPod’s Click Wheel: Germany’s Maxfield files for bankruptcy

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 - 09:21 AM EST

"The Düsseldorf consumer electronics manufacturer Maxfield GmbH filed for bankruptcy in the District Court in Düsseldorf," Axel Postinett reports for Handelsblatt.

Postinett reports that after initial successes in the highly competitive and Apple-dominated market for digital music player with up to 12% market share in Germany, Maxfield's sales fell ever further.

Maxfield's planned expansion abroad failed as well as an entry into the mobile phone business, Postinett reports.

Postinett reports that Maxfield failed to deliver more goods to retailers or pay employees salaries, according to sources in Düsseldorf business circles.

Full article (via Google's German to English translation) here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Andreas" for the heads up.]

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Feb 20, 08 - 09:25 am Comment from: Ampar

Blut auf dem Klickenrad?

Feb 20, 08 - 09:26 am Comment from: Wandering joe

Completely unrelated, but I love those joy of tech cartoons on the left side!

Feb 20, 08 - 09:37 am Comment from: Mr. Peabody

Auzgezeichnet!

Maxwho?

Feb 20, 08 - 09:38 am Comment from: Hano

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMenB9Ywh2Q

Feb 20, 08 - 09:41 am Comment from: Ampar

Re: Joy of Tech - They are usually clever. But this time the sweet pussy got my attention.

Feb 20, 08 - 09:45 am Comment from: M'Balz Es-Hari

I like them too WJ....

Feb 20, 08 - 09:53 am Comment from: Yours Smugly

"Blut auf dem Klickenrad?"

Ja! Aber ist das Klickenrad schnappig nach dem Blut?

Feb 20, 08 - 09:55 am Comment from: MCCFR

Sounds more like a ridiculously underfunded company run by idiots than a company that suffered death by iPod.

With a rubbish business plan, no brand profile and no funding, they would probably have suffered death by Dell DJ Ditty!

Feb 20, 08 - 09:57 am Comment from: ralph from berlin

klickrad, heißt es auf deutsch

Feb 20, 08 - 09:59 am Comment from: Sixvodkas

Wandering joe,

I felt mislead by the preview.

I was hoping for a dead cat joke.

Feb 20, 08 - 10:06 am Comment from: Missy Pants

Gone?
But I've seen just as many Maxfields in public as I have Zunes!

Oh.

Feb 20, 08 - 10:10 am Comment from: Ampar

Why is their navigation pad so huge? You could raise a pack of wolves on one of those things.

http://www.maxfield.de/uploads/tx_maxproductslist/MAX-TIBURON_GRAN_DLXE_trans_03.gif

(Yours Smugly, only if the Blut is loaded with Schnapps.)

Feb 20, 08 - 10:37 am Comment from: Cubert

Uhhhh, who?

Feb 20, 08 - 10:38 am Comment from: Mister Snitch

Why is their navigation pad so huge? You could raise a pack of wolves on one of those things.

Many of their users liked to dance with wolves.

Feb 20, 08 - 10:52 am Comment from: Metryq

Mister Snitch, many of those wolves are pretty good at DDR, too.

Feb 20, 08 - 11:08 am Comment from: Klink

HOGAN!!!!!!!!!!

Feb 20, 08 - 02:27 pm Comment from: Synthmeister

Ist einen großen Klickrad ähnlich einen großen Schwanstück?

Feb 20, 08 - 08:00 pm Comment from: Otto

Never heard of them?
I know nothing.....

Feb 20, 08 - 11:06 pm Comment from: onlymagoo

Another one bites the dust!

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