Are Mobile Apps Changing Engineering?

A SolidWorks executive gives this description of how new design projects will develop in the new era of mobile apps: A sales engineer meets over lunch with a customer and shows a proposed design on a tablet computer. Based on the customer's input, the sales engineer makes changes to specs and confirms their feasibility by consulting the company's data management system. By dessert time, the deal is sealed. Is that vision far-fetched, or will such transactions become the new reality in the fast-paced world of mobile computing?

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