I expect so, as that is how App Manager tends to work on the other Maemo devices, although there are options to expose more detail/control to the user if they want.

In the past, Maemo users have had to contend with additional, personal repositories in order to add 3rd party apps and ports of other regular Linux apps, (see http://www.gronmayer.com/it/index.ph...&system=maemo4) but that nausea has mostly gone away now, with a concerted effort to put everything into the Maemo Extras repository. I don't suppose anyone will be using Gronmayer again. I know I've not been there for a long time.

Still, quite how all this (App Manager, Ovi Store and Maemo Select) all play together, I don't know, as the latter two are an unknown quantity to me. From my point of view, App Manager is the tool that lets me (un)install what I want, perhaps the other two are a way for new users to figure out what they want, and perhaps also a way to purchase commercial apps.