It's part of the automatic configuration settings. When you first set up a new email address using "Add other Mail Account" in Mail.app, it just asks your for your name, email address, and the password for the account. It then sends the domain to Apple to get the imap/pop3/smtp servers and other configuration information for that domain, if it is available, so the user doesn't have to enter them all separately. It's part of a good UI.

Oh, I read it. But you didn't read my response to your other comment, which was,

Even if you change search engines in safari, it doesn't disable Spotlight suggestions in Safari. That's a separate checkbox in the Search tab in the Safari preferences. (There are a bunch of options in the Search preferences in Safari)

Searching maps is part of Spotlight suggestions

Even if you change search engines in safari, it doesn't disable Spotlight suggestions in Safari. That's a separate checkbox in the Search tab in the Safari preferences. (There are a bunch of options in the Search preferences in Safari)

If you want live search results from the web, of course the client has to send the search string to a server each time the search string changes. Why is this surprising? If you don't want live search results from the web, disable it (in the Spotlight preferences and/or in the Safari Preferences) and the search string will stop being sent.

If you want any kind of information from the internets, some data has to be sent to a server on the internets at some point in time. There's no way around this.

I think OP might mean instead of a different type of server and didn't realize web servers can be extremely small when tasked with one singular purpose.

OpenSSL has proven to be too big and too much of an untested surface area. Although I'm saddened they didn't move to CommonCrypto.

So why didn't Snapchat take a proactive approach and ban the third parties? They really depended on the ToS for enforcement of security?

Extremely low density of vending machines in the US. Now, Japan...

Because otherwise it would leak passwords to insecure sites, in plain text.

If they are using iPads with the latest version of iOS 8, they can just save the passwords using the keychain in safari with autofill (only works if a site is HTTPS, however)

it has no utility for anything other than payments. The use scenarios other devices use NFC for (because they can't be used for payments due to carrier interference) are better handled by better technologies, like Bluetooth LE.

Apple doesn't have a permission system? Have you used iOS? It has an excellent on-demand permission system. An app wants both location, camera, and microphone access? But you don't want it to have location access? Deny it! Only want it to have microphone access sometimes? OK!

Incorrect. iOS always encrypts all data with a master key based of secret data in the CPU. If you choose a pin/passcode, it is salted.

Not really up on this, are you? or know how to use an iOS device, do you?

You can only hide it if it is not on your device therefore, it is not taking up any storage space.

Sadly, it does not automatically download. Even with automatic downloads on. It automatically appears in the list of purchases and automatically appears in iTunes in the Cloud (if you have that option enabled), but it didn't automatically download.