Would switching ios to open source have caught this bug earlier? This bug is a huge one, since it is a critical system which is required to be 100% reliable with consequences affecting users on important things such as aeroplane trips.
In my case I was lucky enough that my parents also set an alarm on their reliable alarm clock, I was wondering why mine didnt go off, but then again I remembered this bug occuring during day light savings time which was now meant to be fixed(i guess only for daylight savings not new years-lol).
Obviously their TDD was lacking in this area.
Being that Apple only makes money off their hardware, at least thats what they tell us.
What is the crime in giving their platform to the community so that their hardware will feature the most reliable software due to communities involvement and bug fixing?
I'm not very familiar with how much of android is actually open source but i suspect apple could be benefiting from a similar strategy.