Products and the Realization of the Attitudes of a Company

I won't get too philosphical in this post, but, while reading Dare's blog, it suddenly struck me how much a product is the implementation of the culture of the company. He quotes:

So not only does Google Desktop flood websites with feed requests in a manner bordering on the behavior of a malicious application, it also does this automatically without the end user explicitly subscribing to the feed.

That's messed up.

Translation: We're Google, and we are the only ones who matter, so we're going to do whatever we want cause we have your best interests at heart.

You can say this the same thing about MS, of course, in a slightly different way. Look at Office. Translation: We only care about people who pay us LOTS of money, and so we're going to completely optimize this product for a very specific set of people who pay us a lot, and ignore everybody else.