The blame can be lain in several places, not least on developers for writing Android apps the way they write iOS apps.
In mentoring teams that are cross-training to make Android versions of their apps, I find that getting them into the right frame of mind about designing for a wide variety of screen geometries, ideally getting their designers to use Eclipse to load their work into the project and manage the directories for different geometry categories themselves, and getting the coders to accept that they can't subvert the Activity lifecycle, are good places to start to get them out of the "Why can't this be like iOS?" headspace.
Otherwise it's very likely they will choose to learn these lessons through experience.
You: Sudo, make me a sandwich. Google: OK
I'm referring to rooting a device and customizing the experience. That's why i prefer Android.
PS. Notice i didn't generalize it?