This is a pretty broad generalization. Not to mention, just because Google has better advertising and promotion of its new ideas and research, I'd not discount Apple, IBM or Microsoft. If anyone, IBM has consecutively stood the test of time with new innovations and inventions. World changing.
It's talking about the auto-generated root password that gets emailed to you upon creation of your VM initially. Most everyone would, hopefully, have changed his/her root password manually, upon receiving it in email via cleartext.
Only to find out at the end, it's all been real and the people with the tin foil hats aren't really that far off base.