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the force was too strong for movie ticket websites Monday I'm Bridget Carey this is your cnet update you may have felt a disturbance in the force Monday night as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror when they couldn't get tickets to the upcoming Star Wars movie because every ticketing website and app was down and constantly crashing unable to handle the demand I was among those trying and I was trying for three hours tickets for opening weekend were supposed to go on sale at the same time as the new full trailer for The Force awakens which premiered on ESPN during halftime of Monday Night Football and social media went crazy the force it's calling to you I mean there is so much there to freeze frame and analyze why is ray crying and Finn is fighting and why didn't they show Luke's face and there was sad Princess Leia and you know what let's go back to that lay a shot because that was pretty much my face from the exhaustion of dealing with these ticketing websites which ended up starting sales before the trailer went live but even if you kept refreshing apps and websites you were hit with constant timeout glitches and other error messages Fandango or shall we say fail dango didn't prepare for this traffic and it was listing some showings as unavailable when they were available and even crashing on me several times after i submitted payment finally i did get through on amc's website but some people just had better luck going in person to a theater yeah best to just give up on technology oh and after I did finally get my tickets here's something that added to the venture even though I got failed messages on fandango some of the payments actually went through apparently as i discovered with random confirmation emails for tickets i didn't think i bought and how to get refunds for it's enough to make you turn to the dark side we have another two months until it comes out so at least i have little sphero bb-8 to keep me calm in the music but in the meantime there is more news to talk about so let's segue from the dark side to an apple story more than six and a half million people are now paying for the Apple music service since it launched at the end of June it costs ten dollars a month Apple CEO Tim Cook shared the number at a conference Monday to compare Spotify has 20 million paying members but 6.5 isn't bad for only being around for a short time cook also revealed that the new Apple TV streaming video box will go on sale monday and it'll start to ship by the end of next week the box costs 150 dollars and it adds support for Siri as well as app games and that's it for this tech news update there's more at cnet com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey