This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, April 17th,

2026. We tell you what you need to know, give you some important context, and try to help each other understand this crazy technology world.

Today, everyone is loyal to their phones, so who's going to switch and why?

Yeah, the answer surprised me.

Might surprise you too. I'm Tom Merritt. I'm Jen Cutter. Let's start with what you need to know

with that big story. So this is a survey conducted by a company called Sell Sell. That's an

SNSC because you can sell your cell phone on sell, sell, listen, this is a great way for them to get their name out there, get a little free marketing, totally fair, but the survey was well conducted.

They found a representative sample of 5,000 US smartphone users and asked them, hey, what are you planning? You plan to stay with your current phone,

you're going to switch, if you're going to switch why. And they focused on Android and iOS as the

platforms. Well, they did do some phone brand questions as well. Here's what they found. 94.6% of

iPhone users said they intend to buy an iPhone next time they need a phone.

That is actually up from 91.9% in 2021.

3.6% of iPhone users said, you know what? I think I might do Android next time, but that's a very small amount.

It's actually smaller than the last time.

17.4% said they would stay with iPhone because they were invested in the ecosystem.

And that's usually what everybody says, like, oh, you're locked in.

That's why you can't switch.

But 60.8% said, I just prefer iOS, citing reliability,

ease of use, trust in their privacy, something Apple is always marketing on. And those who did

want to switch to Android said, it's price. Apple's too expensive. I'm going to go find something

cheaper. But fewer people doing that than you might have expected. On the Android side,

86.4% of Android users said they were going to stay with Android, while 13.6% said they would

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