A week of bug fixes doesn’t exactly seem like news. I think most people are hoping for like an entire release dedicated to it.
Let’s say I buy a Samsung phone and find a bug that I want to fix. How do I do it? Can you walk me through it step-by-step at a high level?
Also, you can release source code and still be monopolistic and abuse your competitive advantage. Chrome, Edge, and Safari are essentially open source but their competitive advantages come from being installed as defaults on their respective operating systems. They have an inherent competitive advantage over other open source browsers like Firefox (and the market share statistics prove it).
Want to fix a bug in any of the hardware interacting modules like drivers? Not usually possible because you can’t modify binary blobs. Instead you need to modify the parts interacting with the driver and hope you can get a workaround.
Want to modify the apps? Most of the apps people use are closed source , including many that people take for granted as being vended by the OS. So that’s also moot unless you stick to FOSS apps only.
And even then, to go AOSP, you’d probably lose access to a majority of the differentiating features of your device.
At the end of the day, yes, you can MAYBE fix a small section of bugs if you have the skills and are willing to make a lot of compromises as well.
It’s not as cut and dry as OSS makes it sound
Cut, dried, dehydrated and delivered to your door.
Most of the bugs I wanted to fix where things that worked correctly on the iPhone. Turns out having essentially the same device across the entire platform makes development way easier.