An Arm and a Windows

Here are the top 50 free apps on Windows RT, as ranked by the App Store itself (I presume this is done using a pure download count...please someone enlighten me if I'm wrong).

A few notes based on differences between this list and the last one I posted at the end of March:

*Dropbox dropped off: I was never a huge fan of the Dropbox RT/8 app. Like the other cloud apps, it didn't give you any way of syncing folders, which is the huge power of Dropbox. What was even worse, the app didn't allow you to upload. I'm not sure if this has been updated since I totally switched over to just using the browser to access Dropbox.

*Facebook Now the clear winner? Back in March Facebook Touch was the client at the top of the list. Now in May Facebook Now seems to be dominating. Not only is it ranked third overall (compared with 40th for Facebook Plus), it also has a higher user rating.

*More Better Games: A few new games are rising to the top: Pac Pac Man, Tetris, SushiChop (the Windows RT version of Fruit Ninja), and Drift Mania. Samurai vs. Zombies Defense is a fun sidescroller defense game that was popular on Android and iOS a short while ago. A Bird's Journey looks absolutely beautiful...I'm going to give it a try after I finish this post.

*Last But Not Least: Nook. It's there. A lot of people have downloaded it. It's not rated particularly well.

The Best of the Best:

1 Xbox Smartglass
2 Skype
3 Facebook Now
4 Google Search
5 Pac Pac Man
6 Netflix
7 MS Solitaire Collection
8 Pinball FX2
9 Advanced English Dictrionary
10 ESPN
11 Twitter
12 Photo Editor
13 Tetris
14 Instagram Explorer
15 Cut the Rope
16 Youtube Player/Downloader - Megatube Support
17 Wordbrush
18 Jetpack Joyride
19 Drift Mania Championship 2 Lite
20 Work Notes Pro
21 SushiChop
22 Hulu Plus
23 Monsters Love Candy
24 Wikipedia
25 BubbleBreaker

The Next 25:

26 Slots
27 MS Mahjong
28 Flixster
29 The Weather Channel
30 Solitaire HD
31 OneNote
32 Amazon
33 Calculator Free
34 A Bird's Journey
35 4 Pics 1 Word
36 The Chess Lv. 100
37 Samurai vs. Zombies Defense
38 Audible
39 Backgrounds Wallpapers HD
40 Facebook Plus
41 Flow Free
42 Yahoo! Mail
43 Adobe Reader Touch
44 Kindle
45 Jewel Fever
46 Piano8
47 NOOK
48 iHeartRadio
49 DealOrNoDeal
50 Monkey Flight