I think you need a prepaid account indeed to deploy anything on an apple device. Otherwise it would mean anybody could hack a non-accepted application to people's devices, which would make iPhones and iPads pretty vulnerable to… well basically anything so I guess the answer is common sense.
I think you need a prepaid account indeed to deploy anything on an apple device. Otherwise it would mean anybody could hack a non-accepted application to people's devices, which would make iPhones and iPads pretty vulnerable to… well basically anything so I guess the answer is common sense.