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Apple finally put itself on equal footing with rivals by allowing users to rate and review its own first partyparty apps for the first time this fall

amid increased regulatory pressure ahead of a likely antitrust investigation.

Although some of Apple's apps had been available to download separately, they had never been able to be reviewed,

and some didn't fare well, as it turned out, like mail, news, and podcasts, for example,

which started off under three stars.

In other news, General Motors CEO Mary Barra is pretty confident that the driver will

be out of cruise vehicles by 2022 as the company looks to enter early commercial operations

for autonomous robot taxi and delivery services.

The guidance from Barra, made during an earnings call with Investors Wednesday, comes as several autonomous

vehicle companies prepare to launch commercial services or expand existing ones.

And Google is rolling out the ability for kids, teens, and their parents to request to have pictures deleted from the company's image search results.

The new privacy option was one of many changes the company announced in August in an effort to

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