Uptake used in a sentence

Uptake in a sentence as a noun

This is a huge factor in uptake of SaaS at smaller firms.

"Remember how Google+ had significant uptake in the rich white tech dude demographic?

That's an awful lot of potential to kickstart the uptake of a distributed social network, and I'm not sure that anyone's thought to exploit this yet.

The worst case scenario for Win8 is another epic marketing fail like Vista and slow adoption, followed by immediate uptake of Win9.

The windows xp piracy rate ends up in a very low uptake of windows update, leaving quite possibly the largest population of vulnerable hosts in the world.

If, instead, Facebook released profile widget of some sort -- say, a standardized black box as one's default profile image, with a solidarity message or link -- they'd probably see better uptake.

>git won the mindshare war. I regret this - I would have preferred Mercurial, but it too is not looking real healthy these daysI confess that my perception of Mercurial is the diametric opposite of the author's. Recently I believe I have seen a modest resurgence of interest in Hg and increased uptake.

Surely Grove's costs were relatively low, and my impression was that there was a significant level of uptake.> "..our team has moved on to other projects.."So, unprofitable, or just not the next Facebook?

This is hard, and can be affected by a bunch of different factors: funding breakdown in non-corporate research, Great Stagnation Hypothesis, breakdown in public acceptance of science, economic decline in some places, economic growth in some places, public uptake of anti-aging ideologies, attitudes towards the retirement crisis we're already facing even before anti-aging research comes in.