Using the word "code" was a bad choice of words. I certainly didn't mean to suggest that companies always have better achitecture in their code or that they are in any way superior coders. A better word would be "software" and specifically features. Product might be closer even.

I'll admit that statement is poorly worded. A better rendering of the though I was trying to get across is:
Companies produce good software (good being a measurement of innovative features, performance, and affordance) and the ones that don't die out.

That isn't to say that companies that produce good software don't also die out.