There are exactly ZERO good DropBox apps for the N9. I have tried them all, and they are, basically, a waste of time, and do nothing that I can't do just by logging into the DropBox site. And one of them (Dropian) is almost impossible to get to use on the N9 and appears to be just an afterthought for that device (the initial login screen is extremely finicky).

The WHOLE point of a DropBox client is to sync files locally. Isn't that what people use it for on their computers? Why should this be any different for our phones? I don't get what the authors of these three DropBox clients were thinking, I just don't get it, don't get it, don't get it, it drives me crazy.

On the N900 I have folders and files symlinked to my DropBox folder and this gets synced in its entirety to the online DropBox folder which in turn is automatically synced with various computers I have, where those folders are in turn symlinked with files in various places on their respective filesystems. While those computers automatically stay in sync with the DropBox folder, there is a slight inconvenience in the case of the N900 which is that I have to initiate the sync manually - but this is a tiny price to pay and is probably the behaviour you want on a mobile device that may have low bandwidth/high cost connectivity some or much of the time.

So I just need one click of a button on the N900 and then everything is in sync everywhere as the sync from the N900 is both up and down. And because of the power of symlinking, the synced files and folders can be ANYWHERE on the filesystems of ANY of my devices.

Now if I could just get my N9 into this sync circle ALL my devices could stay in sync with each other. But NONE of the current DropBox clients provide this essential feature, which as I said seems to be the whole point of DropBox, and I am left gnashing my teeth....

Are the DropBox clients on Android and iOS devices this bad as well? If so, this reinforces my view that the N900 is different, and for some reason people put up with (severely) limited functionality on their smartphones as a matter of routine, and developers develop this way, even though the iPhone and Android smartphones are computers too. If that mentality is now spilling over to the N9, it further undermines the claim that it is a successor to the N900, which means it really was a unique and one-off device, a true tiny mobile computer with telephony functions, with developers that developed that way on it, not a smartphone, with (apparently) all the artificially imposed limitations that come with that. All of this makes me very sad, because what I want is a mobile computer with telephony functions, not a walled-in device.