Man, its funny to watch Jack and Woz trade jabs. There is no love lost there!
Frankly, Woz is massively overrated, so I'm not surprised.
He seems like a lovable enough guy, and a good engineer (or at least he was), but he only gets the amount credit he gets because he left Apple before the going got tough, and because Apple did very well in the US and particularly on the West coast and even more specifically with West coast "hackers", many of whom later ended up in tech journalism, while Commodore ultimately failed and did best outside the US. It's survivor bias (for Apple) coupled with a lot of revisionism, an amazing marketing and PR machine at Apple even in the early days, and lack of perspective. Unfortunately it seems like Woz has come to believe a lot of the hype that's gotten attached to him over the years.
That's not to say that they guy didn't do amazing stuff, but a lot of other people did amazing stuff too, including people like Tramiel and Chuck Peddle (people's written about him that while Woz made a machine starting with chips made by Peddle, Chuck Peddle made a machine by starting with sand; and Peddle himself reportedly said to Tramiel a few years ago that while Tramiel "ruined his life" he is still thankful to Tramiel for giving him the chance to change peoples lives that he wouldn't otherwise had), and a bunch of later Commodore engineers, as well as people elsewhere.
While the early Apple's by all account were good machines (never seen one in real-life - they were non-entities in Norway where I grew up), they were for most intents a niche product for middle class Americans, and for a very long time not a very successful one. Commodore, Texas Instruments, Sinclair and Tandy/Radio Shack all did vastly more to popularize computing than Apple did in its early years.
The veneration for Jobs is more understandable - his turnaround of Apple after his return, coupled with his successes with Pixar and Next and the way he hung in there at Apple while battling cancer and losing -, is the stuff of legends whether or not you like the guy.
But Woz was a one hit wonder that went on to live off his one success and image and hasn't really done anything of note since the early 80's (unless you count driving a Segway around and waiting in line at Apple stores for no good reason). Nothing wrong with that, and something to dream of being able to do if that's the lifestyle you want, but not really worth the level of admiration he gets.
A lot of the lack of credit both to Commodore people and others comes down to the US bias in the computer press and survivor bias, coupled with the desire for a lovable or admirable hero or anti-hero to build up. Tramiel wasn't as charismatic as Jobs, and not as lovable as Woz. And the engineers in Commodore has not really been made as visible to anyone without a special interest.
In many ways, the biggest difference between Tramiel and the two Steve's is probably that Tramiel was way more human than Jobs (for both good and bad - his tempers are of course famous, but so is his dedication to his family, to the extent that he was willing to lose Commodore at least in part over his sons involvement), and way more committed and determined than Woz (in that way he was probably closer to Jobs).
