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It's not sad in terms of numbers. It's sad in terms of the implementation. It's pretty much only the kernel... Yes I know all the utilities and applications is really GNU and not Linux, but that's what people think of when they say they run Linux.
So yes all android phones technically run Linux, but you're not getting a Unix flavoured experience at all. It might as well not have been linux.
Hence the sadness.
The point being that it doesn't matter whether it is Linux.
Because when we talk about Linux, we don't attribute the name just to the kernel, but to the openness that comes along with it.
In case of Android phones, the user:
Ok, I've written enough... bye