I have been watching for a while what channels are available for Meego Harmattan app distribution. For Maemo5, it's pretty simple. For free app, there is the extras repository which works pretty well except that the app manager is slow. For paid app, there is Ovi Store, but the implementation is pretty lame. In case you haven't heard of, the frontend is a webpage that just downloads non-encrypted deb file for paid apps....
Gladly, the store is much improved in Harmattan. Harmattan has a dedicated Store client and so the integration is much better. The version available for N950 probably will not be the release version so I won't comment on the small details, but generally it provides a seamless experience for browsing/purchasing/installing apps. It's not hard to see that Nokia Store will be the default destination for N9 users to search for apps.
I was expecting there would be a channel similar to extras available very soon for Harmattan when I received N950. Unfortunately due to various issues, there is still nothing similar to Maemo5's extras repository for community app. This leaves Nokia Store as the one and only official channel for app distribution. As a result, Stockona is currently undergoing Nokia QA. Let's see how long it takes before Stockona gets published...
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