Sure, but the complaint was about drivers for 37% of the phones. That's going to stay, even if chip design and/or manufacturing becomes open source. And Linux for the Desktop kind of proves that: the choice is there, but very few take it.
I work on a website that gets responses from a representative sample of the population (age, gender, education, geographical spread, are all balanced; other factors unfortunately not). Linux usage is about 2%.
Considering the amount of very casual users, the usual paretian distribution, the heavy introduction of mobile OS in accessing the web, and the (witnessed) presence of engineers who adopt the motto "Outside work I want to use a Mac to convince me that no issues ever exist", the number makes some sense. I would have computed double as an estimation.
I work on a website that gets responses from a representative sample of the population (age, gender, education, geographical spread, are all balanced; other factors unfortunately not). Linux usage is about 2%.