The terminology for "native" used in the blog post is inexact (actually, incorrect), but consistent with how the casual usage of the term has drifted due to the

The terminology for "native" used in the blog post is inexact (actually, incorrect), but consistent with how the casual usage of the term has drifted due to the competition from the 'web technologies' stack. In this usage, "native" means non-webview; and/or non-HTML5/JS/CSS-bundled-with-the-entire-browser-runtime. Often it's also a byword for the platform-preferred first-party stack, making the argument somewhat tautological: of course there's a limited selection of first-party preferred stacks on every platform. I'm guessing this usage is a contraction of the term "platform-native".