I honestly don't see the point in owning an AR, presonally. Yeah it can help you with cloning and checking IVs and hatching eggs faster and whatnot, but I'm not all that into cloning and I don't really care about IVs and hatching eggs fast is stupid. What about the feeling you get when you travel a fair distance (Route 209 - 215) to hatch a Pokemon. AR may be good for some people, but not for me.
I see it as the same in HGSS, where people think it's cool to AR to send back the legendary dogs back to the burnt tower to get good IVs or to be shiny. How is that in any sense considered not cheating, like seriously?
[/rant]