I wonder if it has anything to do with the Delegate pattern used in iOS vs Android's Listener pattern when it comes to handling continuous touch events on the main thread, rather than the rendering speed.
i think this is probably the most accurate thing that can be said. thank you for posting this, do you think the linux scheduler subtleties / server-process-optimization may add to this?
I'm afraid I have absolutely no knowledge of these. I'm more of a high-level self-taught app dev, things that happen under the hood go far above my head most of the time :)