It's native focused in the sense that it's not meant for building mobile web apps. You are building apps to run in the app store with Ionic. Also, we are workin

It's native focused in the sense that it's not meant for building mobile web apps. You are building apps to run in the app store with Ionic. Also, we are working on "native style" UI interactions that might not fit in a mobile web app. Sencha Touch is great, but Ionic has a permissive license with an open source spirit. Sencha's open source version is only for open source apps compatible with the GPL, which is a big restriction. And, you can actually submit pull requests and contribute to Ionic. Plus the development model of Sencha isn't markup based, and doesn't use Angular. If you are happy with Sencha, by all means, keep using it. We are ambitious and will be working hard to make sure Ionic is better than Sencha in most ways :)