Scenario 5-2 Since Its Introduction to the Market in 2007, Apple Inc.'s

Scenario 5-2
Since its introduction to the market in 2007, Apple Inc.'s iPhone dominated other smartphones in terms of units activated per year. However, several years later, Apple faces stiff competition from Google's Android software and Research in Motion, the maker of the Blackberry. The problem for Apple is that its competition, primarily phones powered by Android operating systems, largely outnumber the iPhone in terms of available options. In the U.S.alone, there are over twenty smartphones that run on the Android operating system, compared to Apple's one iPhone. Americans are now buying more Android phones than iPhones.Experts claim that if the trend continues, Android will have erased the iPhone's once enormous lead in the high-end smartphone market in a little over a year. Now more than ever, Apple, which insists on tight control of its devices, must find a way to win in an intensely competitive market against rivals that are openly licensing their software to scores of companies.
-(Scenario 5-2) A new movie is released, and the film's main character is seen conversing on his iPhone throughout the film. If the actor portraying the character in the film is admired and consumers purchase the phone because they see him using it, the actor

A) no longer serves as a peripheral cue for these viewers.
B) has created an intergenerational effect for these viewers.
C) is a member of these viewers' celebrity influencers.
D) is a part of these viewers' membership groups.