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by goto_self 2457 days ago
But having separate private and personal accounts on your phone is very different from application resource namespacing. They're essentially orthogonal concerns.

In the case you're making, a user (a real actual human user) has different settings when _using_ the phone in two contexts. In the latter case, applications are restricted to sandboxes with well-defined interactions between each other's memory, processes, devices, sockets, and files.