The Economist - About Japanese Economy

Japanese economy's "bread and butter" is, and has been, manufacturing.
Japan makes great material products: cars, electronics, machines, etc.

The way The Economist presented this known fact in its last week edition was rather amusing:

“[Japanese] companies tent to focus on the things that can drop on your foot and neglect lucrative revenues from services”.

Did they mean it literarily “things that can drop on your foot”?