And it wouldn't do anything for if you had two phones, right? This is pretty annoying as someone who still wants to use Uber. Enough that I would consider a competitor.
Most people don't have 2 phones, and put lyft/uber on different ones. I'm presuming they're doing it so they can target lyft users with more promotions.
In what scenario would a person be using one phone for Lyft and one for Uber?
I use two phones, but I have both apps on both.
Drivers.
Drivers have a different app, this is the consumer app.
They may well share code and or library dependencies which could be where the 'need' for the permissions comes from.
Ah yes the multitude of people who have lyft on one phone, and uber on another.
And then of course they have their twitter phone, and their facebook phone and...