The point is that he didn't have an incentive to approve such wide permissions at that point. They should have waited to ask permissions until that screen, or g

The point is that he didn't have an incentive to approve such wide permissions at that point. They should have waited to ask permissions until that screen, or given more information as to why you should approve their request. On iOS it's also pretty cumbersome to allow these things after disallowing them. You have to go into settings, find the privacy tab, go to the correct requirement and then find the app to toggle it on. I agree it's not clear from this article alone, but I've read his previous publications and it comes up a lot.