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The returns will be more or less correlated to Apple stock, which is easier to get into and have significantly more volume if you want to play with options.

I'm not sure that small '3M' company is that tightly bound to Apple stock.

Joking aside, a lot of the supplier listed her don't seem to be the main branch, but the exact branch supplying Apple. So the company stock should really not be that tied to a specific vendor.

In particular considering that if something were to happen to Apple, any other hardware manufacturer could take the opportunity to contract them, making it neutral.

One small company is not, all 200 taken together, almost surely.

And short-sell the ones which are likely going to get killed after Apple ASIC team brings their IP into the A-... family of chips.

based on whether they appear on the list.

It's alphabetical, so no help there.