"Apple can simply decide to prevent people from running code on their phones."
no - you are free to run any code on YOUR phones with the enterprise program - you are clearly not free to run any code on OTHERS phones using this program..
no - you are free to run any code on YOUR phones with the enterprise program - you are clearly not free to run any code on OTHERS phones using this program..
As a user, I can not choose what code to run on my iPhone.
The only way to run a non-official app would be if the app was open source: put it in testflight for your personal use.
This is the main reason I have sworn off all Apple devices.
If someone won’t give you the code, but instead will only supply it via Apple’s store, that’s between you and the supplier.
That is a very limited subset of iPhone users.
The only reason Fortnite used Apple's app store is because Apple has made it practically impossible to side load apps.
What’s difficult is to distribute commercially, or maliciously without going through Apple.