Or how about accept a key associated with the iCloud account linked to the phone? This basically prevents any user friendly third party app store, but also all

Or how about accept a key associated with the iCloud account linked to the phone? This basically prevents any user friendly third party app store, but also allows users to, you know, use the device like they own it. But I thought there was some ability to load apps without a developer account? Am I wrong? I've always just purchased the account because I was getting paid and wanted to show some professionalism but I thought there was a workaround.