Yeah, setting up and running rsync was kind of exactly the fiddly type of solution I wasn't keen to explore myself. I know it can be done, and is not rocket science, but after spending 4 years on a Linux laptop, and doing a lot of that, I no longer have the patience and it gives me headaches to even think about it ;-) I switched to OS X to avoid that.

I'd mostly be happy to even read images and videos into iPhoto off the N9, and reliably delete them off the phone. I realise the N9 is not as sweetly 'just works' as the iPhone with OS X, but the closer I can get, the happier I'll be.

Uploading the odd music track is also a nice bonus (although my iPhone compatible headphones don't seem to work on the N9 :P).