Area Safari Browser Found To Be Using Less Space Than Is Available On Surface It Is Displayed Upon, Spatial Utilization Experts Describe Gap As 'Measurable, Unused, And Right There If You Look At It'

RIVERTON — In a developing story that has sent shockwaves through the tri-county technology community, sources close to the situation are confirming tonight that Apple — the Cupertino, California-based company responsible for the iPhone — is actively exploring whether Safari, which is its web browser, could display websites on the outer screen of the iPhone Duo in a manner that takes up more of the outer screen than it currently does.

The outer screen, which is located on the outside of the phone, is currently displaying websites in a layout that multiple experts are describing as cramped.

"What we're looking at here is a screen," said Dale Hutchins, 54, a self-described tech enthusiast and assistant manager at a Riverton-area Batteries Plus, who agreed to speak with us in the parking lot following his shift. "And on that screen, there is content. But the content, according to my understanding of the situation, is not filling the screen the way a person might hope content would fill a screen."

Hutchins paused, shook his head slowly, and added: "That's a problem I think most folks can understand."

Our investigative team spent the better part of Tuesday attempting to locate someone who had seen the cramped layout in person. We reached Donna Ferrell, 61, a retired school librarian who owns an iPhone but confirmed it is "the regular kind, not the foldy one." Donna nonetheless expressed concern.

"If the websites are cramped, then the people reading the websites are probably also having a hard time," Donna said. "I just hope Apple gets to the bottom of it. They're usually pretty good about these things, from what I've seen on the news."

When pressed by our anchor for specifics on what "exploring a fix" actually means in this context, Dr. Raymond Pollard, a professor of something at a university our producers were unable to fully verify before airtime, explained that engineers at Apple were likely looking at the outer screen, then looking at the website on the outer screen, and then discussing ways to make the website look more like it was meant to be on the outer screen.

"Essentially, you have a defined spatial boundary," Dr. Pollard said, gesturing at a whiteboard on which he had drawn a small rectangle next to a bigger rectangle. "The outer screen is this one. The website is currently behaving as though it is even smaller than this one. The goal, as I understand it, is to make the website behave more like this one." He pointed at the small rectangle again. "The screen one."

Our team followed up to ask whether Apple had provided a timeline for the fix. Dr. Pollard said he did not work for Apple and had been contacted by our producers only forty minutes prior.

At press time, the outer screen of the iPhone Duo remained outer, the website remained cramped, and Apple had not returned calls to a phone number our intern found on Yahoo that turned out to be an Apple Store in Tempe, Arizona, where a representative named Cody told us, very politely, that he couldn't really speak to that.