Yeah, they left that part off didn't they? Xamarin != Native iOS.

How is Xamarin not native? It's compiled right, not some web view hybrid?

Yes, Xamarin produces a compiled executable, as you would get in Swift or Objective-C. It is not a web view hybrid.

I work for Microsoft

By Native iOS you mean not written in Objective-C/Swift using Cocoa Touch

Xamarin uses Cocoa Touch. It gets compiled to the same thing as something written in Swift. So definitely iOS Native.

Not really the same thing...

I believe the cococa touch API is exposed like for like in xamarin.

You are correct. They actually have a tool that scans the Cocoa libraries and generates API bindings for Xamarin to use. Source: Miguel De Icaza on the .NET Rocks podcast.

It is native code.

Yep convenient ommissions = marketing