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E.Chart magazine, available for iOS Newsstand now. After nearly three years as Apple CEO, calls are getting louder to believe in the Tim Cook era.

Barron's had UBS analyst Steve Melinovich issuing a note to clients on Monday wherein he said he and his firm think

Cook doubters will be proven wrong.

The piece says that's based on a meeting Melunovich had with Cook last week as well as on recent articles either about or pertaining to Apple.

What Cook and Malunovich discussed will apparently stay secret.

He didn't reference that so much. Instead he pulled from

three pieces in particular the first from daring fireballs John Gruber in which

Gruber argued that Cook's killing siloed groups for more coordination and teamwork

proved that he's the right man to succeed Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

Quoting Groupers' peace. Jobs was a great CEO for leading Apple to become big, but Cook is a great

CEO for leading Apple now that it is big to allow the company to take advantage of its size and success.

Article number 2 was by Clay Christensen in the Harvard Business Review.

He argued in his article that big businesses are reluctant to push innovation because they live by the idea that capital is scarce.

But capital is not, with 1.6 trillion dollars in cash on corporate balance sheet. not spreadsheet driven decisions. Last year he said we design our products so they surprise

and delight everyone who uses them and we never never ever analyze the return on

investment. We do it because it is just and right.

We believe Apple has had remarkable new market innovation success, according to Malonovich.

Article number three was from the profile of Cook in this past weekend's New York Times.

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