My Skeletool is always in my camera bag. Pocketknife snobs roll their eyes, but I won’t venture forth without those pliers and the screwdriver. (It’s got interchangeable bits!) Folded up it’s compact and pocketable.
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Seriously? There is so much to say…but discretion dictates that I refrain.
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Different times. I was born and started school in a mid sized northern city. No one had air conditioning so windows and doors stayed open in warm weather day and night. And elementary school aged children walked to school and played outdoors unsupervised.
We moved to a small town in the mid 1950’s and that could have been my school. Even some of the teachers brought their rifles on occasion.
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Thanks. 
I actually took a rifle (on the bus!) to my high school history class for a presentation.
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Wow, today the bus would be surrounded by SWAT and you would be hauled off to jail, if not shot.
Since this has evolved into a thread about Swiss Army Knives, I’ll just mention that Victorinox has introduced some of their tools with a ‘bladeless’ option. The Companion and the Jetsetter are available now. And there are more to come…
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Yes seriously, but certainly a sign of the times. And yes there is a lot to say, but for a few reasons, this is not the place for it. 
To quote Sir John Falstaff (Shakespeare, Henry IV):
To die is to be a counterfeit, for he is but the counterfeit of a man who hath not the life of a man; but to counterfeit dying when a man thereby liveth is to be no counterfeit, but the true and perfect image of life indeed. The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
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Too tempting to use when faced with one too many irksome students/staff one day? 
Bring back the halcyon days when the only thing that arrived in crates and trucks at school was free milk. Plain, strawberry or chocolate for the junior school kids…sigh
You left out the sometimes most irksome group, but I’ll not name it. 
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Perhaps it’s because macOS doesn’t have too much to write home about. I don’t use any Mac apps anymore. Last time I used them was iWork. But when they ditched it and reintroduced a feature poor version so I ditched it. Since then, Apple hasn’t actually introduced anything that I find worth using. Their own apps rank worse than competitors. Both MS Word and Google Docs rank higher than Pages on iOS. That’s quite a statement.
Until Apple takes software seriously, this won’t change. Somehow they don’t seem too interested hence third party apps take to this space.
Personally, I think the era of FOSS is dawning on a world drowned by expensive subscriptions.
The Apple Apps are perfectly serviceable if you need a Word Processor, Spreadsheet or Presentation tool (Names from the 1990s) and many, many people will use them for their personal needs or as a freelancer or as part of a small business.
But Apple provides plenty of corporate devices these days, and very few companies with more than 5 people will use Apple’s Apps as their standards. MS Office 365 and Google Apps (or whatever it’s currently called) will be the default and therefore the number of downloads will exceed Apple’s own apps.
The difference? Apple doesn’t make any money from iWork, it’s an add on to make their hardware more attractive
Open Source is an option and many European government departments are experimenting, but no-one got fired for buying Microsoft or Google apps which are commonplace to use.
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Not any more. There is now a premium subscription.
The amount of that which will be attributable to the iWork apps will be negligible.
Not sure I agree. Paywalls normally herald in future features being behind the paywall. There’s no point asking people to pay and then leaving everything free.
Definitely wouldn’t get that on the plane nowadays!
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Several governments have moved to, or are moving to, open document format (ODF)
That should simplify the process of moving to different software should that become necessary.
Of which the uk government is one.
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According to Wikipedia, all NATO countries have moved to it. I’m curious if that is just in the context of NATO or also interdepartmental documentation. I noticed MS-Word allows you to save a document as a ODF.
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