ISTR - and ICBW because it has indeed been a while - that back in the iPhoneOS days the free account got you XCode and the simulator but you needed a paid accou

ISTR - and ICBW because it has indeed been a while - that back in the iPhoneOS days the free account got you XCode and the simulator but you needed a paid account to be able to get an actual provisioning profile to load code on a device. But that was like 5 or 6 XCodes and 4 and some S'es iPhones ago. I might well be misremembering.