I find it ironic but I don't find it odd. Lionel is a big "brand name" but they aren't truly big. As such, they have extremely limited funds for R&D. At the time LSU was written, DB9 serial ports and Windows were THE platform and interface with market share. That's what the majority of their customer base had. So that's where LSU was developed. And to minimize new costs (or maximize old investments depending on your point of view) Lionel doesn't want to start all over with LSU - PARTICULARLY when running the program under Windows in a virtual machine under OS X is such a readily available and fairly simple option to address demands from their smaller (but probably growing) base of Mac customers. So they can go from LSU V1 to LSU V2 for comparatively little money. The only big change to me seems to be the addition of WiFi support. (Comparatively cheaper to add that code than a complete rewrite.) At the time LCS was developed - seemingly largely for WiFi - Apple's iOS was THE platform with mobile market share. That's the mobile operating system the majority of their customer base has. So that's where that application was developed. Perfectly logical. Ironic, but logical.
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