Drones offer Facebook a foothold into mobile commerce.
Some critics of the Facebook drone series have described them as ‘cell phone towers at 60,000 feet’. This is because Facebook will be able to market their mobile applications with these devices. With the primary point of the enterprise being the spread of a Facebook service, many critics believe that the Aquila service will give Facebook the foothold that they need in order to push forward with a huge mobile gaming and application push. Right now the Futures for Facebook project most heavily in the mobile market. This is a target enterprise, obviously, but it is also much more self oriented than Internet.org would have you believe. Of course the side effect of internet everywhere helps Facebook, but it does make them seem a little less magnanimous.
Critics of the Aquila worry that it will break net neutrality.
Net neutrality has been a hot button topic for the better part of the past five or six years. The debate on net neutrality has raged harshly on Capitol Hill and now it will once again come to the forefront. With the Aquila Network airborne Facebook would also be the internet provider for people that are also their customers. On a global level, at 60,000 feet, Facebook also would not be beholden to United States regulations. While we can take Zuckerberg at face value and accept his pinkie swear of good behavior there is still very obviously some issues at play here. Not incidentally, developing nations are perfect developing grounds for the Silicon Valley type entrepreneur.