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.
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).
Oddly, you didn't mention that U.S. schools were FULL of Apple computers in the early 80's. That was the key to their early success- marketing as an "education" machine when it was no better than its contemporaries. This led to alot of home sales with no technical qualification whatsoever, and the high cost fed the status and prestige. The Apple ]['s were costly enough, and the Lisa and Mac were too expensive to buy in bulk.
This created the vacuum filled by the C64. (And some others of course)
Anyway RIP Jack.
P.S. As far as the Islamoterror infiltration thing- none of these guys died poor. Just a thought.
