Shocker, developing for one single device on only one network that runs a very slowly changing OS is going to be easier on the developer. The 'scary parts' of android are no different than the complexities for designing for web, and that industry seems to be getting by just fine wouldn't you say? I can make my code work on different browsers, with and without flash or javascript enabled, different browser versions, color depths, internet speeds, geographic locations, screen resolutions and operating systems. Not to mention different server and backend software configurations, iis/apache, sql/mysql etc etc etc etc etc etc. So what is so scary about Android again? The sooner you get over it the sooner you will realize its not that big of an issue at all. This is what we do.

I have run into this a hundred times now at least. There are a ton of different removal tools for the different versions because they ALL have this problem. I'd say something like 1 in 5 uninstalls or something crazy like that.

And on another note, norton is dependant on internet explorer. If you could completely remove internet explorer from you system (which is a whole other topic) norton worldn't work at all. Google is a bunch of smart friggin people, why dont they know that norton sucks? There is something shady behind this google pack indeed.