Could be the same rumors filtered through differently technically literate pipelines. To a lot of people React Native is still "web stuff", and the article does

Could be the same rumors filtered through differently technically literate pipelines. To a lot of people React Native is still "web stuff", and the article doesn't admit any technical knowledge as to how this rumored project is going to attempt "native integration" other than it will attempt "native integration" so for all we know, could still be (has always been) React Native.