NBC may be holding back its TV shows from the iTunes Store, but it’s more than happy to put them on the less-trafficked Zune Marketplace. (There’s no doubt some “let’s keep punishing Apple” corporate logic behind this; I hope to see it laid out on an upcoming 30 Rock episode.) Also, Zune is introducing a “sharing” feature that smells to me more like a “recommendation” feature. See if you feel the same way! Zune users can access friends’ nine most recently played songs and nine favorite songs. But! In order to get said songs they first have to sign up for a $14.99-a-month ZunePass, which offers unlimited access to “a library of millions of tracks.” So they’d have access to the songs anyway. Right? Am I missing something, or is this all supposed to make sense in the same way that Deal Or No Deal does, i.e. not at all? [WSJ]
